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

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AWS

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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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Operating systems

On your pentesting journey, you will come across multiple different operating systems. Various operating systems have different uses, including as servers, host clients, or cloud environments. It's important to understand these various operating systems because you will need to understand the ways they work in their environments. For this section, we will discuss some aspects of Linux and Windows systems that you ought to know about when pentesting.

Linux/Unix

Linux is an open source operating system based on the Unix platform. It's seen on quite a few devices and servers that we currently use, so it's important that you understand some of the basics about it. It is open source, so it has an open platform for collaboration that allows other developers to work on it, meaning you can add your own code and bug fixes.

Linux comes in many different "flavors" of operating system, such as Debian – which Kali is – Fedora...