Recognizing relevant considerations and practical strategies when building and automating lab environments

We are down to the last major section of this book! In the previous few sections of this chapter, we learned how to use various AI-powered solutions and tools to accelerate and automate relevant tasks when building lab environments. In addition to the strategies and solutions we have discussed already, we have a few more considerations and recommended practices we must take into account when building penetration testing lab environments in the cloud.

Here is a quick list of the things we should consider and plan for when designing lab environments:

• Identifying the purpose of the lab: Before designing and building a lab environment, it is important that we identify why we are building the lab in the first place. We need to know how the lab will be used as this will dictate the necessary resources and configurations required for the lab environment. For one thing, it...