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Cloud Penetration Testing for Red Teamers

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248486
Pages 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Kim Crawley Kim Crawley
Profile icon Kim Crawley
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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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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1:Today’s Cloud Networks and Their Security Implications
2. Chapter 1: How Do Enterprises Utilize and Implement Cloud Networks? 3. Chapter 2: How Are Cloud Networks Cyber Attacked? 4. Chapter 3: Key Concepts for Pentesting Today’s Cloud Networks 5. Part 2:Pentesting AWS
6. Chapter 4: Security Features in AWS 7. Chapter 5: Pentesting AWS Features through Serverless Applications and Tools 8. Chapter 6: Pentesting Containerized Applications in AWS 9. Part 3:Pentesting Microsoft Azure
10. Chapter 7: Security Features in Azure 11. Chapter 8: Pentesting Azure Features through Serverless Applications and Tools 12. Chapter 9: Pentesting Containerized Applications in Azure 13. Part 4:Pentesting GCP
14. Chapter 10: Security Features in GCP 15. Chapter 11: Pentesting GCP Features through Serverless Applications and Tools 16. Chapter 12: Pentesting Containerized Applications in GCP 17. Chapter 13: Best Practices and Summary 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploring AWS-native security tools

AWS provides you with two native tools that will be especially useful to you as a pentester: AWS Security Hub and Amazon Inspector.

First, let’s take a look at AWS Security Hub.

AWS Security Hub

AWS Security Hub is an easy way to view all of your AWS security configurations, AWS-native security scan reports, and security alerts. It can combine data from Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, and AWS Network Firewall.

If there are any major security problems in your AWS instance, AWS Security Hub will notify you! You can mention data you find in AWS Security Hub in your pentest report. But by conducting vulnerability scans and pentests with third-party applications, you may be able to find additional vulnerabilities. I recommend using both the tools AWS provides and third-party tools to get the most thorough data about the security posture of your AWS instance.

Let’s take a look at AWS Security Hub for the first...

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Kim Crawley
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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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