Penetration Testing Azure for Ethical Hackers
Develop practical skills to perform pentesting and risk assessment of Microsoft Azure environments
Published on 25. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-83921-293-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 Description"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.
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 forThis 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.
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 Description"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.
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 forThis 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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83921-293-2 (9781839212932)
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Persons
David Okeyode is a cloud security architect at the Prisma cloud speedboat at Palo Alto Networks. Before that, he was an independent consultant helping companies secure their cloud environments through private expert-level training and assessments. He holds 15 professional certifications across the Azure and AWS platforms, including the Azure Security Engineer, Azure DevOps, and AWS Security Specialist certifications. He has also authored two cloud computing courses for the popular cybersecurity training platform Cybrary.
David has over a decade of experience in cybersecurity (consultancy, design, and implementation) and over 6 years of experience as a trainer. He has worked with organizations of different sizes, from start-ups 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 about cloud security at major industry events, such as Microsoft 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 traveling the world together and intend to do missions in Asia very soon!
As a Practice Director at NetSPI, Karl leads the Cloud Penetration Testing service line and oversees NetSPI's Portland, OR office. Karl holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and has over a decade of consulting experience in the computer security industry. Karl spends most of his research time focusing on Azure security and contributing to the NetSPI blog. As part of this research, Karl created the MicroBurst toolkit on GitHub to house many of the PowerShell tools that he uses for testing Azure.
David has over a decade of experience in cybersecurity (consultancy, design, and implementation) and over 6 years of experience as a trainer. He has worked with organizations of different sizes, from start-ups 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 about cloud security at major industry events, such as Microsoft 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 traveling the world together and intend to do missions in Asia very soon!
As a Practice Director at NetSPI, Karl leads the Cloud Penetration Testing service line and oversees NetSPI's Portland, OR office. Karl holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and has over a decade of consulting experience in the computer security industry. Karl spends most of his research time focusing on Azure security and contributing to the NetSPI blog. As part of this research, Karl created the MicroBurst toolkit on GitHub to house many of the PowerShell tools that he uses for testing Azure.
Content
Table of Contents
Azure Platform and Architecture Overview
Building Your Own Environment
Finding Azure Services and Vulnerabilities
Exploiting Reader Permissions
Exploiting Contributor Permissions on IaaS Services
Exploiting Contributor Permissions on PaaS Services
Exploiting Owner and Privileged Azure AD Role Permissions
Persisting in Azure Environments
Azure Platform and Architecture Overview
Building Your Own Environment
Finding Azure Services and Vulnerabilities
Exploiting Reader Permissions
Exploiting Contributor Permissions on IaaS Services
Exploiting Contributor Permissions on PaaS Services
Exploiting Owner and Privileged Azure AD Role Permissions
Persisting in Azure Environments