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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

The cloud is gaining more popularity than ever, and every organization is looking to shift its infrastructure to it. AWS particularly rules the roost with its market share. This book gets pentesters and sysadmins hands-on with pentesting AWS services using Kali Linux, covering detailed screenshots and custom scripts for automating the process.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

16h56m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you are a security analyst or a penetration tester and are interested in exploiting Cloud environments to reveal vulnerable areas and secure them, then this book is for you. A basic understanding of penetration testing, cloud computing, and its security concepts is mandatory.

Book content

chapters 16h56m total length

Setting Up a Pentesting Lab on AWS

Setting Up a Kali PentestBox on the Cloud

Exploitation on the Cloud using Kali Linux

Setting Up Your First EC2 Instances

Penetration Testing of EC2 Instances using Kali Linux

Elastic Block Stores and Snapshots - Retrieving Deleted Data

Reconnaissance - Identifying Vulnerable S3 Buckets

Exploiting Permissive S3 Buckets for Fun and Profit

Identity Access Management on AWS

Privilege Escalation of AWS Accounts Using Stolen Keys, Boto3, and Pacu

Using Boto3 and Pacu to Maintain AWS Persistence

Security and Pentesting of AWS Lambda

Pentesting and Securing AWS RDS

Targeting Other Services

Pentesting CloudTrail

GuardDuty

Using Scout Suite for AWS Security Auditing

Using Pacu for AWS Pentesting

Putting it All Together - Real - World AWS Pentesting

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