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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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Using AWS PowerShell and the AWS CLI

A lot of the exercises in this chapter can be executed directly from AWS CloudShell. As long as you have a Windows, Linux, or Mac computer with internet access and a web browser, AWS CloudShell is easy to access. Your computer doesn’t need to have a workstation or gaming PC hardware specifications, because all the virtualization and computation are conducted on Amazon’s infrastructure. But I would definitely recommend that you use some sort of desktop or laptop computer, and not a phone or tablet. AWS CloudShell’s UI works best with a physical keyboard.

When you’re logged in to your AWS account in your web browser, you can access AWS CloudShell at any time by clicking on an icon at the top of your screen. The AWS CloudShell icon looks like a small square with a command prompt:

Figure 5.1 – AWS CloudShell icon

Figure 5.1 – AWS CloudShell icon

If you would prefer to access the AWS CLI without AWS CloudShell, you...

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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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