AWS Cloud Penetration Testing Explained with Example Cloud Security Podcast

Cloud Security Podcast -  This month we are talking about "Breaking the AWS Cloud" and next up on this series, we spoke to Seth Art (Seth's Linkedin) Cloud Penetration Testing Lead (Principal) at Bishop Fox. AWS cloud project to pentest AWS cloud architecture are not spoken about much - this stops today. We have Seth who works in the Cloud Penetration testing space to talk about open source tools and what Cloud pentesting is all about.

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Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)

Guest Twitter:  Seth Art (Seth's Linkedin)

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Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions

(00:00) Introduction

(04:24) A bit about Seth

(06:10) Web App Pentesting vs Cloud Pentesting

(08:11) Working with scale of multiple AWS accounts

(10:20) What can you expect to find with Cloud Pentesting?

(12:14) Foundational pieces about approaching pentesting in Cloud

(15:19) How to start a Cloud Pentest?

(18:25) The importance of IAM

(23:43) Common services in AWS to look at

(25:58) Mistakes people make for scoping

(29:18) The role of shared responsibility in Cloud Pentesting

(32:38) Boundaries for AWS pentesting

(35:13) Nmap between 2 EC2 instances

(36:37) How do you explain the findings?

(40:26) Skillsets required to transition to Cloud Pentesting

(45:41) Transitioning from Kubernetes to Cloud Pentesting

(48:55) Resources for learning about Cloud Pentesting.

(49:47) The Fun Section

See you at the next episode!