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Testing S3 Bucket Security: Misconfigurations and How to Test Them

Amazon S3 is one of the most common sources of cloud data exposure, and almost always because of how a bucket is...

Attacking AI Workloads in the Cloud: Prompt Injection and Model Exfiltration

AI workloads deployed in the cloud are a new attack surface that sits at the intersection of traditional cloud...

AWS Privilege Escalation: Techniques and Defenses

AWS privilege escalation is the set of techniques an attacker uses to turn a low-privileged foothold in an Amazon Web...

AI Penetration Testing: Methodology, Tools and Scope

AI penetration testing is the authorized security assessment of an AI-powered application to find and exploit...

Kubernetes Penetration Testing Guide

Key Takeaway: Kubernetes penetration testing is the authorized assessment of a cluster from an attacker's point of...

Cloud Pentesting Methodology: From Reconnaissance to Privilege Escalation Across AWS, Azure, and GCP

Why Cloud Pentesting Requires a Different Approach Traditional penetration testing methodology (scan, enumerate,...

How to Become a Cloud Penetration Tester: A Step-by-Step Career Guide

Cloud is where the workloads went, and it is where the attackers followed. Most enterprises are on some journey towards...

AWS Penetration Testing Training

AWS Penetration Testing Training AWS dominates the cloud market with over 30% share, which means the majority of cloud...

GCP Penetration Testing Training

Google Cloud Platform is the least-covered major cloud provider in offensive security training, which creates both a...

Azure Penetration Testing Training

Azure's attack surface is dominated by identity. Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) sits at the center of every Azure and...

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