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Cloud Penetration Testing
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Cloud Penetration Testing

by Kim Crawley
November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
8h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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How Are Cloud Networks Cyber Attacked?

When you begin your journey to becoming a cloud pentester, it helps to start with the basics.

Your job is to test cloud networks to see how they can be cyber attacked. The organization you work for can then use your discoveries to improve the cybersecurity of its cloud networks.

Because Amazon (AWS), Microsoft (Azure), and Google (GCP) own the infrastructure on which you’ll be testing, you won’t be allowed to do literally anything a cyber attacker may try to do in real life. But you need to understand all the kinds of cyberattacks that cloud networks deal with, even if you can’t simulate all of them.

The best pentesters can think like real cyber attackers. This chapter will give you a better understanding ...

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