CHAPTER 6
Attacking the Cloud
In this chapter, you will learn about
• Performing attacks against cloud technologies, such as credential harvesting, privilege escalation, and account takeover
• Identifying misconfigured cloud assets
• Using cloud-specialized attack tools for cloud attacks
Like network, mobile, and application penetration testing, cloud pentesting is quickly becoming its own unique discipline. The CompTIA PenTest+ exam acknowledges this and may have questions to test your knowledge of the subject area. In this chapter, we will attempt to cover enough of this discipline to aid you during your certification attempt, but we encourage you to do additional research in this area to truly build your expertise.
In Chapter 1 we ...
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