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Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers

By : David Okeyode, Karl Fosaaen
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Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers

By: David Okeyode, Karl Fosaaen

Overview of this book

“If you’re looking for this book, you need it.” — 5* Amazon Review Curious about how safe Azure really is? Put your knowledge to work with this practical guide to penetration testing. This book offers a no-faff, hands-on approach to exploring Azure penetration testing methodologies, which will get up and running in no time with the help of real-world examples, scripts, and ready-to-use source code. As you learn about the Microsoft Azure platform and understand how hackers can attack resources hosted in the Azure cloud, you'll find out how to protect your environment by identifying vulnerabilities, along with extending your pentesting tools and capabilities. First, you’ll be taken through the prerequisites for pentesting Azure and shown how to set up a pentesting lab. You'll then simulate attacks on Azure assets such as web applications and virtual machines from anonymous and authenticated perspectives. In the later chapters, you'll learn about the opportunities for privilege escalation in Azure tenants and ways in which an attacker can create persistent access to an environment. By the end of this book, you'll be able to leverage your ethical hacking skills to identify and implement different tools and techniques to perform successful penetration tests on your own Azure infrastructure.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Section 1: Understanding the Azure Platform and Architecture
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Section 2: Authenticated Access to Azure

Summary

In this final chapter, we covered the many persistence options that are available within Azure. For the attackers reading, hopefully, this has provided you with some options for maintaining your access within an Azure tenant. For the defenders reading, good luck with finding any persistence methods that have made their way into your environment. On the plus side, many of the techniques mentioned in this chapter can be logged and alerted on in Azure with Sentinel rules. We highly recommend checking out the detection options within Azure Sentinel for the defenders reading this book.

As a final note for this chapter and this book, we wanted to remind you to clean up and secure your test tenant. Since you probably created your tenant and subscriptions in an account that is tied to your credit card, we don't want you to accidentally run up a huge Azure bill as part of following along with this book. Although accidentally running up a massive cloud bill is a rite of passage...