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Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers

You're reading from Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers Develop practical skills to perform pentesting and risk assessment of Microsoft Azure environments

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839212932

Length 352 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (2):

David Okeyode

Karl Fosaaen

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Understanding the Azure Platform and Architecture

2. Chapter 1: Azure Platform and Architecture Overview FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Building Your Own Environment

4. Chapter 3: Finding Azure Services and Vulnerabilities

5. Section 2: Authenticated Access to Azure

6. Chapter 4: Exploiting Reader Permissions

7. Chapter 5: Exploiting Contributor Permissions on IaaS Services

8. Chapter 6: Exploiting Contributor Permissions on PaaS Services

9. Chapter 7: Exploiting Owner and Privileged Azure AD Role Permissions

10. Chapter 8: Persisting in Azure Environments

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deploying a pentest VM in Azure

Now that we have an Azure tenant to deploy resources to, we will want to set up a VM to use for testing. This VM will allow us to follow the exercises in this book and should provide a clean base for installing tools, as compared to trying to install tools on existing systems. For anyone looking to implement an Azure base image for automating their own internal team's tooling, this should also be useful for that.

Hands-on exercise: Deploying your pentest VM

We have prepared an Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template in the GitHub repository of this book. The template will deploy a Windows Server 2019 VM with the following applications installed: Git for Windows, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), and Docker Desktop.

Important note

ARM templates can be a great tool for deploying resources in an Azure environment. Since this is a book focusing on attacking (versus building) Azure environments, we won't be covering ARM templates in depth...

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Authors (2)

David Okeyode

David Okeyode

David Okeyode is the EMEA chief technology officer for Azure at Palo Alto Networks. Before that, he was an independent consultant helping companies secure their Azure environments through private expert-level training and assessments. He has authored three books on Azure security – Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers, Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond, and Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions. He has also authored multiple cloud computing courses for the popular training platform LinkedIn Learning. He holds over 15 cloud certifications across Azure and AWS platforms, including the Azure Security Engineer, Azure DevOps, and AWS Security Specialist certifications. David is married to a lovely girl who makes the best banana cake in the world. They love traveling the world together!

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Fosaaen

Fosaaen

As a Practice Director at NetSPI, Karl leads the Cloud Penetration Testing service line and oversees NetSPI's Portland, OR office. Karl holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and has over a decade of consulting experience in the computer security industry. Karl spends most of his research time focusing on Azure security and contributing to the NetSPI blog. As part of this research, Karl created the MicroBurst toolkit on GitHub to house many of the PowerShell tools that he uses for testing Azure.

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