Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers: Develop practical skills to perform pentesting and risk assessment of Microsoft Azure environments by David Okeyode

David Okeyode . Unknown Year . English

Simulate real-world attacks using tactics, techniques, and procedures that adversaries use during cloud breaches 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 Book Descr 100 95752 0 95752 0 0 80519 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 80463iption: Security professionals working with Azure will be able to put their knowledge to work with this practical guide to penetration testing. The book provides a hands-on approach to exploring Azure penetration testing methodologies that will help you get up and running in no time with the help of a variety 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. This book starts by taking you through the prerequisites for pentesting Azure and shows you 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. Finally, 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. 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 Who this book is for: 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.

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About the Author

David is the EMEA Chief Technology Officer for Azure at Palo Alto Networks. Before that, he was an independent consultant helping companies secure their Azure environments through private expert level trainings and assessments. He has authored two books on Azure security - "Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers" and "Microsoft Azure Security Technologies Certification and Beyond" (https://amzn.to/3C7mrcL). He has also authored multiple cloud computing courses for the popular training platforms like LinkedIn Learning and Cybrary. He holds over 15 cloud certifications across Azure and AWS platforms, including the Azure Security Engineer, Azure DevOps and AWS Security Specialist certifications. David has over a decade of experience in Cybersecurity (consultancy, design, implementation) and over 8 years of experience as a trainer. He has worked with organizations of different sizes from startups to major enterprises to government organizations. David has developed multiple vulnerable by design automation templates that can be used to practice cloud penetration testing techniques. He regularly speaks on cloud security at user groups and major industry events like Microsoft Build, Microsoft Ignite, fwdCloudSec, Future Decoded and the European Information Security Summit. David is married to a lovely girl who makes the best banana cake in the world. They love travelling the world together!

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