Reader small image

You're reading from  Cloud Penetration Testing for Red Teamers

Product typeBook
Published inNov 2023
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781803248486
Edition1st Edition
Languages
Right arrow
Author (1)
Kim Crawley
Kim Crawley
author image
Kim Crawley

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.
Read more about Kim Crawley

Right arrow

Purple teaming and writing pentest reports

As a cloud pentester, you will spend anywhere from a few days to multiple months on a single engagement, whether you’re a third-party contractor to the organization you’re working for or a part of the organization’s internal red team. Your objective is to work within your organization’s contractually defined scope to find as many security vulnerabilities as you can while performing simulated cyber attacks your organization and the cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) permit you to do.

So, over the course of those days, weeks, or months, you may have found several vulnerabilities. Most of them are vulnerabilities that the cybersecurity community is familiar with, with extensive records in the CVE database, NIST’s NVD, and in the security alerts and patch notes of the vendors (tech companies that provide products and services to your organization) to which the vulnerabilities you’ve found pertain. Maybe...

lock icon
The rest of the page is locked
Previous PageNext Page
You have been reading a chapter from
Cloud Penetration Testing for Red Teamers
Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803248486

Author (1)

author image
Kim Crawley

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.
Read more about Kim Crawley