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AWS Penetration Testing

You're reading from AWS Penetration Testing Beginner's guide to hacking AWS with tools such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, and Nmap

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216923

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Security

Author (1):

Jonathan Helmus

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Setting Up AWS and Pentesting Environments

2. Chapter 1: Building Your AWS Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Pentesting and Ethical Hacking

4. Section 2: Pentesting the Cloud – Exploiting AWS

5. Chapter 3: Exploring Pentesting and AWS

6. Chapter 4: Exploiting S3 Buckets

7. Chapter 5: Understanding Vulnerable RDS Services

8. Chapter 6: Setting Up and Pentesting AWS Aurora RDS

9. Chapter 7: Assessing and Pentesting Lambda Services

10. Chapter 8: Assessing AWS API Gateway

11. Chapter 9: Real-Life Pentesting with Metasploit and More!

12. Section 3: Lessons Learned – Report Writing, Staying within Scope, and Continued Learning

13. Chapter 10: Pentesting Best Practices

14. Chapter 11: Staying Out of Trouble

15. Chapter 12: Other Projects with AWS

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Section 3: Lessons Learned – Report Writing, Staying within Scope, and Continued Learning

By this point in the book, you should be comfortable with the basics of pentesting AWS and how its services can be exploited. Here, you will learn the importance of report writing and the value it holds in pentesting. This section will also cover how AWS instances can be secured against vulnerabilities such as misconfigurations while also explaining what is legal and illegal to do when pentesting.

This section contains the following chapters:

Chapter 10, Pentesting Best Practices
Chapter 11, Staying Out of Trouble
Chapter 12, Other Projects with AWS

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Authors (1)

Jonathan Helmus

Jonathan Helmus

Jonathan Helmus ("Moos1e") is a penetration tester and professor with over 10 years of experience in engineering, information security, and information technology. Jon resides in a small town right outside Seattle, Washington, where he and his family raise alpacas on their mini farm. Currently, Jon works as a freelance educator teaching topics such as pentesting, red teaming, cloud security, and vulnerability exploitation. He also works as a contract pentester and cloud security professional for clients all around the world.

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