Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers

Chapter 2: Building Your Own Environment

To fully follow the content of this book, you will need access to an Azure environment and a penetration testing virtual machine (VM) that you can use to simulate using the tools, techniques, and procedures for exploiting an Azure environment. By following along with the hands-on examples in the book, you will gain a valuable insight into practically exploiting vulnerabilities in a real-world environment. On the plus side, Microsoft is eager to have people try out Azure, so it's easy to set up a free trial in Azure to help keep your costs down.

This chapter will provide guidance on setting up your own Azure tenant and a penetration testing VM with the necessary tools installed.

In this chapter, we will ...