This course follows a Black-box Cloud Penetration Testing approach to demonstrate the steps involved in a real-world Cloud Penetration testing engagement of an organization’s AWS and Azure infrastructure. Through a series of hands-on labs, students will have an in-depth understanding of identifying vulnerabilities and exploits related to ELBs, Security Groups and CloudFront servers, IAM, Lambda, S3 buckets, AWS RDS, and Terraform state files. Furthermore, students will learn Cloud Penetration testing attack paths for database compromise, misconfiguration, authentication attacks, SSRF, XXE, command injection, and Denial of Service.
Learning Objectives
1) Learn how to conduct a Black-box penetration test of an organization’s AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure.
2) Identify and analyze vulnerabilities and exploits related to AWS and Azure infrastructure.
3) Identify, understand and implement Cloud Penetration testing attack paths for AWS and Azure infrastructure.
Framework Connections
The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):
Specialty Areas
- Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support
- Cyber Operational Planning
- Test and Evaluation
- Threat Analysis
- Vulnerability Assessment and Management
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