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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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Key Concepts for Pentesting Today’s Cloud Networks

Before you perform your first cloud pentest or red team engagement, there are some concepts you need to learn.

Cloud platforms have policies for pentesting that you and your organization must abide by. It’s also important to understand and verify network performance with benchmark checks. Services enumeration is a way an attacker can learn things about your organization’s public cloud services that can help them cyber-attack it.

Assure that your organization’s public cloud has performed vulnerability assessments and that common cloud misconfigurations are addressed before you pentest.

Resources provided by MITRE’s Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, the National Institute ...

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