“If you’re looking for this book, you need it.” — 5* Amazon Review
Curious about how safe Azure really is? Put your knowledge to work with this practical guide to penetration testing.
This book offers a no-faff, hands-on approach to exploring Azure penetration testing methodologies, which will get up and running in no time with the help of real-world examples, scripts, and ready-to-use source code.
As you learn about the Microsoft Azure platform and understand how hackers can attack resources hosted in the Azure cloud, you'll find out how to protect your environment by identifying vulnerabilities, along with extending your pentesting tools and capabilities.
First, you’ll be taken through the prerequisites for pentesting Azure and shown how to set up a pentesting lab. You'll then simulate attacks on Azure assets such as web applications and virtual machines from anonymous and authenticated perspectives.
In the later chapters, you'll learn about the opportunities for privilege escalation in Azure tenants and ways in which an attacker can create persistent access to an environment.
By the end of this book, you'll be able to leverage your ethical hacking skills to identify and implement different tools and techniques to perform successful penetration tests on your own Azure infrastructure.
publication date
2021-11-25
what you will learn
Identify how administrators misconfigure Azure services, leaving them open to exploitation
Understand how to detect cloud infrastructure, service, and application misconfigurations
Explore processes and techniques for exploiting common Azure security issues
Use on-premises networks to pivot and escalate access within Azure
Diagnose gaps and weaknesses in Azure security implementations
Understand how attackers can escalate privileges in Azure AD
key features
Understand the different Azure attack techniques and methodologies used by hackers * Find out how you can ensure end-to-end cybersecurity in the Azure ecosystem * Discover various tools and techniques to perform successful penetration tests on your Azure infrastructure
approach
Readers will be introduced to the Azure platform, its services, and how those services are typically configured and secured. You’ll then move on to how these services can be misconfigured by administrators, and abused by attackers. At each step along the way, the reader will walk through hands-on practices, and gain practical skills on exploiting misconfigurations and escalating privileges.
audience
This book is for new and experienced infosec enthusiasts who want to learn how to simulate real-world Azure attacks using tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that adversaries use in cloud breaches. Any technology professional working with the Azure platform (including Azure administrators, developers, and DevOps engineers) interested in learning how attackers exploit vulnerabilities in Azure hosted infrastructure, applications, and services will find this book useful.
short description
Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers provides in-depth explanations of common security issues in Azure environments and tutorials on how to set up a pentesting lab and execute attacks on Azure assets. It will help you gain a deeper understanding of how Azure environments are configured, and more importantly, how they can be misconfigured.
subtitle
Develop practical skills to perform pentesting and risk assessment of Microsoft Azure environments
keywords
pentesting book; Ethical hacking book; web application pentesting; pentesting aws; Microsoft azure administrator; web pentesting; pentest tools
Product ISBN
9781839212932
