Description
Hacking and Securing Cloud Infrastructure
This course cuts through the mystery of Cloud Services (including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform) to uncover the vulnerabilities that lie beneath. We will cover a number of popular services and delve into both what makes them different, and what makes them the same, as compared to hacking and securing traditional network infrastructure.
Whether you are an Architect, Developer, Pentester, Security or DevOps Engineer, or anyone with a need to understand and manage vulnerabilities in a Cloud environment, understanding relevant hacking techniques, and knowing how to protect yourself from them is critical. This course covers both the theory as well as a number of modern techniques that may be used to compromise various Cloud services and infrastructure. Prior pentest/security experience is not a strict requirement, however, some knowledge of Cloud Services and familiarity with common Unix command-line syntax will be beneficial.
Highlights of our Training:
- Gaining Entry in cloud via exposed services
- Attacking specific cloud services
- Post Exploitation
- Defending the Cloud Environment
- Host base Defenses
- Auditing and benchmarking of Cloud
- Continuous Security Testing of Cloud
You will be able to:
- Learn how to tackle cloud security issues for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform in theory and in practice
- Understand complex vulnerabilities within the Cloud environment and learn how to effectively secure them.
- Enumerate cloud assets and gain entry into a cloud environment
- Learn how to prepare for Auditing and audit the data plane and golden images, AMI and Docker images
What you can take away from the course:
Delegates will gain knowledge of attacking, exploiting and defending a variety of Cloud infrastructure. First, they will play the part of the hacker, compromising serverless apps, cloud machines, storage and database services, dormant assets and resources.
Delegates will learn privilege escalation and pivoting techniques specific to cloud environments. This is followed by Infrastructure Defense, secure configuration, auditing, logging, benchmarks.
Delegates will learn preventive measures against cloud attacks, host-based defense and a number of cloud tools that can help in securing their services and resources. Apply the learning to:
- Identify weaknesses in cloud deployment
- Fix the weaknesses in your cloud deployment
- Monitor your cloud environment for attacks
The free 30 day lab access provides attendee additional time to learn advanced topics in their own time and at their own pace.
Details of the course content:
INTRODUCTION TO CLOUD COMPUTING
- Introduction to cloud and why cloud security matters
- Comparison with conventional security models
- Shared responsibility model
- Legalities around Cloud Pentesting
- Attacking Cloud Services
ENUMERATION OF CLOUD ENVIRONMENTS
- DNS based enumeration
- OSINT techniques for cloud-based asset
GAINING ENTRY VIA EXPOSED SERVICES
- Serverless based attacks (AWS Lambda / Azure & Google functions)
- Web application Attacks
- SSRF Exploitation over AWS ElasticBeanStalk
- Exploiting vulnerable applications over GCP and Azure
ATTACKING STORAGE SERVICES (AWS, AZURE, GCP)
- Exploring files in storage
- Exploring SAS URL’s in Azure
- Achieving privilege elevation via secrets in Storage
- Remote code Execution via storage in PaaS, FaaS environment
ATTACKING AZURE AD ENVIRONMENT
- Enumeration in Azure AD
- Various Azure Services
- Azure Service exploitation
- Stealing secrets from Azure services
IAM MISCONFIGURATION ATTACKS
- Exploiting Shadow admins in AWS and Azure
- Attacking AWS Incognito misconfigurations
EXPLOITING PLATFORM AS A SERVICE ENVIRONMENTS (AWS BEANSTALK AND OTHERS) POST – EXPLOITATION
- Persistence in Cloud
- Post exploit enumeration
- Snapshot access
- Backdooring the account
CONTAINERS AS A SERVICE AND K8S EXPLOITATION
- Understanding how container technology work (namespaces, cgroup, chroot)
- From docker to kubernetes
- Identifying vulnerabilities in docker images
- Exploiting misconfigured containers
- Exploiting docker environments and breaking out of containers
- Exploring kubernetes (k8s) environments
- K8s exploitation and breakouts
- Pivoting to host OS
DEFENDING CONTAINERS
- Container Image security basics
- Container Host security
DEFENDING K8S
- Authentication Methods and Configuration
- Native Authorization and Third Party Solutions
- Cluster Network Protections
- Monitoring K8s Environments
DEFENDING THE CLOUD ENVIRONMENT
- Identification of cloud assets
- Inventory Extraction for AWS, Azure and GCP
- Continuous inventory management
- Protection of Cloud Assets
- Principle of least privilege
- Control Panel and Data Panel Protection
- Financial Protections
- Cloud specific Protections
- Metadata API Protection
- Detection of Security issues
- Setting up Monitoring and logging of the environment
- Identifying attack patterns from logs
- Revisiting day 1 attacks via logs
- Real time monitoring of logs
- Monitoring in multi-cloud environment
- Response to Attacks
- Automated Defense techniques
- Cloud Defense Utilities
- Validation of Setup
AUDITING AND BENCHMARKING OF CLOUD
- Preparing for the audit
- Automated auditing via tools
- Golden Image / Docker image audits
- Auditing Kubernetes Environments using Opensource tools
- Windows IaaS auditing
- Linux IaaS Auditing
- Relevant Benchmarks for cloud
CTF to reinforce learning
Prerequisites
Who Should Take This Class?
Cloud Administrators, Developers, Solutions Architects, DevOps Engineers, SOC Analysts, Pen Testers, Network Engineers, security enthusiasts and anyone who wants to take their skills to next level.
Prior pen testing experience is not a strict requirement, however, some knowledge of Cloud Services and common command line syntax will be greatly beneficial.
You will need:
You must bring your own laptop and have admin/root access on it and must have a virtualization software (virtualbox / VMWare) pre installed. A customized version of Kali Linux (ova format) containing custom tools, scripts and VPN scripts for the class will be provided to you. Your laptop should have at least 4 GB RAM and 20 GB of free disk space dedicated for the VM.
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