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AWS Penetration Testing

AWS Penetration Testing

By : Jonathan Helmus
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AWS Penetration Testing

AWS Penetration Testing

2.3 (12)
By: Jonathan Helmus

Overview of this book

Cloud security has always been treated as the highest priority by AWS while designing a robust cloud infrastructure. AWS has now extended its support to allow users and security experts to perform penetration tests on its environment. This has not only revealed a number of loopholes and brought vulnerable points in their existing system to the fore, but has also opened up opportunities for organizations to build a secure cloud environment. This book teaches you how to perform penetration tests in a controlled AWS environment. You'll begin by performing security assessments of major AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Lambda. Throughout the course of this book, you'll also learn about specific tests such as exploiting applications, testing permissions flaws, and discovering weak policies. Moving on, you'll discover how to establish private-cloud access through backdoor Lambda functions. As you advance, you'll explore the no-go areas where users can’t make changes due to vendor restrictions and find out how you can avoid being flagged to AWS in these cases. Finally, this book will take you through tips and tricks for securing your cloud environment in a professional way. By the end of this penetration testing book, you'll have become well-versed in a variety of ethical hacking techniques for securing your AWS environment against modern cyber threats.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Setting Up AWS and Pentesting Environments
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Section 2: Pentesting the Cloud – Exploiting AWS
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Section 3: Lessons Learned – Report Writing, Staying within Scope, and Continued Learning

Chapter 1: Building Your AWS Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a growing cloud technology provider that many companies use to help house their data. Originating from Seattle, Washington in late 2006, AWS is steadily becoming the most prominent service provider. Due to its usability and its user-friendly interfaces, AWS is used by over 800,000 companies and makes up 65% or more of the cloud infrastructure space. Some of its better-known services, such as S3, Lambda, and EC2 will be frequently talked about through this book and are services that are commonly used in the real world.

This chapter is going to go over the basics of AWS and will walk through setting up an AWS account. It's important that we learn the basics of getting our AWS account configured and ready so that there isn't any additional housekeeping needed after setting up an account. After setting up an account, we'll walk through and set up a few EC2 instances with various flavors of operating systems, and look at vulnerable services within those operating systems. It's encouraged that, after completing the chapter, you look at building out more EC2 instances with other operating systems for your environment.

In this chapter, we'll explore AWS through the following topics:

  • Exploring Amazon Web Services
  • Understanding the testing environment
  • Configuring the environment
  • Exploring vulnerable services
  • Attacking vulnerabilities
  • The AWS Command Line Interface

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