In this chapter, we have set up a lab that can prove useful to beginner penetration testers who do not have access to a test environment or hands-on exposure to a lab. In our lab, we have set up one Ubuntu host with a vulnerable service running on it, and we also set up a Windows server host that is running a vulnerable web application. This represents the two biggest surface areas for an attack in any environment. Additionally, we also went through the process of establishing a network connection between the various instances that we have set up so far. With these steps taken care of, the user can set up any operating system instances in the cloud, set up security groups to configure networking, and protect against unauthorized access as well.
In the next chapter, we will be looking at setting up a Kali PentestBox, using which we can perform scanning, enumeration, and...
