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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

While it may not be the most exciting chapter of the book, the Azure platform fundamentals will set the stage for the rest of the attacks that we are going to learn. As we continue into the following chapters, keep in mind the underlying structure of Azure from both resource and RBAC perspectives.

In the next chapter, we will walk you through the setup of an Azure environment and a penetration-testing VM that you can use to simulate the attack scenarios we will be covering in the rest of the book.