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Using Azure Cloud Shell and PowerShell

Wherever you are in the web interface for managing your Azure services (the URL in your address bar should say portal.azure.com), as long as you’re logged in, there will be a blue menu bar at the top. To the right of the search bar, there’s an icon that looks like a command prompt (something like this: >_):

Figure 8.4 – Azure menu bar and Cloud Shell

Click on it to launch Azure Cloud Shell. In Azure Cloud Shell, you can switch back and forth between PowerShell and Bash at the drop-down menu in the top-left corner. You may have to choose Create storage the first time you launch Cloud Shell:

Figure 8.5 – Azure Cloud Shell screen

You’ll find some Bash commands in Chapter 5, Pentesting AWS Features through Serverless Applications and Tools. We will be using Bash when installing and executing the tools in this chapter. But let’s review some useful...

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Kim Crawley is a thought leader in cybersecurity, from pentesting to defensive security, and from policy to cyber threat research. For nearly a decade, she has contributed her research and writing to the official corporate blogs of AT&T Cybersecurity, BlackBerry, Venafi, Sophos, CloudDefense, and many others. She has been an internal employee of both Hack The Box and IOActive, a leading cybersecurity research firm. With the hacker mindset, she hacked her way into various information security subject matters. She co-authored one of the most popular guides to pentester careers on Amazon, The Pentester Blueprint, with Philip Wylie for Wiley Tech. She wrote an introductory guide to cybersecurity for business, 8 Steps to Better Security, which was also published by Wiley Tech. She also wrote Hacker Culture: A to Z for O'Reilly Media. To demonstrate her knowledge of cybersecurity operations, she passed her CISSP exam in 2023. In her spare time, she loves playing Japanese RPGs and engaging in social justice advocacy. She's always open to new writing, research, and security practitioner opportunities.
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