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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837632398

Length 562 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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AWS

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Cloud Security

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Joshua Arvin Lat

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: A Gentle Introduction to Vulnerable-by-Design Environments

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing Labs in the Cloud FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Preparing Our First Vulnerable Cloud Lab Environment

4. Chapter 3: Succeeding with Infrastructure as Code Tools and Strategies

5. Part 2: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments in the Cloud

6. Chapter 4: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on GCP

7. Chapter 5: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on Azure

8. Chapter 6: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on AWS

9. Part 3: Exploring Advanced Strategies and Best Practices in Lab Environment Design

10. Chapter 7: Setting Up an IAM Privilege Escalation Lab

11. Chapter 8: Designing and Building a Vulnerable Active Directory Lab

12. Chapter 9: Recommended Strategies and Best Practices

13. Index

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Technical requirements

Before we start, we must have the following ready:

An Amazon Web Services account
Any text editor (such as Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, or Sublime Text) where we can temporarily store specific values (for example, our local machine’s IP address) used in the hands-on solutions in this chapter

You may proceed with the next steps once these are ready.

Important note

Make sure you read the available documentation, along with the FAQs, to have a solid understanding of what is free (and what is not free) when creating resources in AWS. In addition to this, make sure you don’t use any existing AWS account with production (or staging) environment resources for the hands-on exercises and solutions in this book. It is strongly recommended that you create a new AWS account specifically for launching intentionally vulnerable resources. This will ensure that your production (or staging) environment resources remain separate and secure...

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