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You're reading from Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Set up a virtual lab and pentest major AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, and CloudFormation

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789136722

Length 508 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (2):

Benjamin Caudill

Karl Gilbert Gupta

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Table of Contents (28) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Kali Linux on AWS

2. Setting Up a Pentesting Lab on AWS FREE CHAPTER

3. Setting Up a Kali PentestBox on the Cloud

4. Exploitation on the Cloud using Kali Linux

5. Section 2: Pentesting AWS Elastic Compute Cloud Configuring and Securing

6. Setting Up Your First EC2 Instances

7. Penetration Testing of EC2 Instances using Kali Linux

8. Elastic Block Stores and Snapshots - Retrieving Deleted Data

9. Section 3: Pentesting AWS Simple Storage Service Configuring and Securing

10. Reconnaissance - Identifying Vulnerable S3 Buckets

11. Exploiting Permissive S3 Buckets for Fun and Profit

12. Section 4: AWS Identity Access Management Configuring and Securing

13. Identity Access Management on AWS

14. Privilege Escalation of AWS Accounts Using Stolen Keys, Boto3, and Pacu

15. Using Boto3 and Pacu to Maintain AWS Persistence

16. Section 5: Penetration Testing on Other AWS Services

17. Security and Pentesting of AWS Lambda

18. Pentesting and Securing AWS RDS

19. Targeting Other Services

20. Section 6: Attacking AWS Logging and Security Services

21. Pentesting CloudTrail

22. GuardDuty

23. Section 7: Leveraging AWS Pentesting Tools for Real-World Attacks

24. Using Scout Suite for AWS Security Auditing

25. Using Pacu for AWS Pentesting

26. Putting it All Together - Real - World AWS Pentesting

27. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Setting Up Your First EC2 Instances

The most popular and central component of AWS is the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). The EC2 provides on-demand scalable computing infrastructure to developers through virtual machines. This means that a developer can spin up a virtual machine with customized specs in a choice of geographical locations to run their application.

The service is elastic, meaning a developer has the option to scale up or down their infrastructure as required for operations and pay by the minute for active servers only. The developer can set the geographical location to reduce latency and achieve a high level of redundancy.

This chapter focuses on creating an Amazon EC2 instance, setting up a VPC around the instance, and configuring the firewall to restrict remote access to this VPC.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

How to run setup customized...

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Authors (2)

Karl Gilbert Gupta

Karl Gilbert is a security researcher who has contributed to the security of some widely used open-source software. His primary interests relate to vulnerability research, 0-days, cloud security, secure DevOps, and CI/CD.

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Benjamin Caudill

Benjamin Caudill is a security researcher and founder of pentesting firm Rhino Security Labs. Built on 10+ years of offensive security experience, Benjamin directed the company with research and development as its foundation, into a key resource for high-needs clients. Benjamin has also been a major contributor to AWS security research. With co-researcher Spencer Gietzen, the two have developed Pacu (the AWS exploitation framework) and identified dozens of new attack vectors in cloud architecture. Both GCP and Azure research are expected throughout 2019. As a regular contributor to the security industry, Benjamin been featured on CNN, Wired, Washington Post, and other major media outlets.

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