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Building and Automating Penetration Testing Labs in the Cloud

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837632398
Pages 562 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Joshua Arvin Lat Joshua Arvin Lat
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Joshua Arvin Lat is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of NuWorks Interactive Labs, Inc. He previously served as the CTO for three Australian-owned companies and as director of software development and engineering for multiple e-commerce start-ups in the past. Years ago, he and his team won first place in a global cybersecurity competition with their published research paper. He is also an AWS Machine Learning Hero and has shared his knowledge at several international conferences, discussing practical strategies on machine learning, engineering, security, and management.
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: A Gentle Introduction to Vulnerable-by-Design Environments
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing Labs in the Cloud 3. Chapter 2: Preparing Our First Vulnerable Cloud Lab Environment 4. Chapter 3: Succeeding with Infrastructure as Code Tools and Strategies 5. Part 2: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments in the Cloud
6. Chapter 4: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on GCP 7. Chapter 5: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on Azure 8. Chapter 6: Setting Up Isolated Penetration Testing Lab Environments on AWS 9. Part 3: Exploring Advanced Strategies and Best Practices in Lab Environment Design
10. Chapter 7: Setting Up an IAM Privilege Escalation Lab 11. Chapter 8: Designing and Building a Vulnerable Active Directory Lab 12. Chapter 9: Recommended Strategies and Best Practices 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Preface

As more organizations around the world migrate their data and their workloads to the cloud, engineering teams as well as security professionals face the complex task of securing production environments against an increasing number of cloud-related threats and risks. This has led to a surge in demand for security professionals capable of attacking and defending cloud applications and systems. Security professionals seeking career growth and looking to excel in their careers should learn how to set up various types of vulnerable-by-design lab environments in the cloud to sharpen their skills even further.

I have written this book to help you and other professionals design, build, and automate penetration testing lab environments running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will learn how to automate the preparation and configuration of cloud resources using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions and strategies. You will have the opportunity to harness the potential of generative AI tools to significantly accelerate the process of building and automating vulnerable-by-design lab environments. In addition to these, you will learn how to use various offensive security tools and techniques to validate and test the vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in our cloud-based labs.

By the end of this book, you should be able to build and automate various types of penetration testing labs in multiple cloud platforms where you can practice and experiment with different types of attacks and techniques.

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Authors (1)

Profile icon Joshua Arvin Lat
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Joshua Arvin Lat is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of NuWorks Interactive Labs, Inc. He previously served as the CTO for three Australian-owned companies and as director of software development and engineering for multiple e-commerce start-ups in the past. Years ago, he and his team won first place in a global cybersecurity competition with their published research paper. He is also an AWS Machine Learning Hero and has shared his knowledge at several international conferences, discussing practical strategies on machine learning, engineering, security, and management.
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