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AWS Penetration Testing
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AWS Penetration Testing

by Jonathan Helmus
December 2020
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
6h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 7: Assessing and Pentesting Lambda Services

Lambda services run code that can later respond to events and other tasks within the Lambda environment as needed. These events and tasks are anything that occurs within the AWS environment – HTTP requests, modifications to S3 buckets, and new EC2 instances being brought up, for instance. This makes Lambda an essential service when it comes to setting up and extending a network and its services for an organization. However, Lambda does present some issues, such as creating weak restrictions on accessing Lambda, vulnerable functions that can carry out unauthorized actions, and rules built within the Lambda policies that allow exploitation to occur.

This chapter will focus on how vulnerability ...

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