The Business of Hacking: Creating, Developing, and Maintaining an Effective Penetration Testing Team

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M. Butler, J. G. OakleyThe Business of Hackinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0174-7_10

10. Effective Testing in Cloud Environments

Michael Butler¹   and Jacob G. Oakley²

(1)

Falls Church, VA, USA

(2)

Owens Cross Roads, AL, USA

 

Cloud computing burst onto the scene in the mid-2000s with the creation of Amazon Web Services (AWS). In the decades since, nearly every major corporation and government agency has adopted it at least partially. The scope of today’s penetration testing engagements almost always includes networks, applications, and/or services hosted in cloud environments.

The offensive cybersecurity community has been slow to respond to the wide adoption ...