Cloud Ethical Hacking : Use Kali Linux on Amazon AWS (Udemy.com)
The only course you need to start running Kali Linux and ethical hacking tasks on Amazon cloud!
Created by: FeltSecure Labs
Last updated November 2017
What you will learn
- Setup an Amazon Free Tier Account
- Create Amazon AWS EC2 Instances
- Create Kali Linux on Amazon AWS
- Setup Guacamole Tool to access and run cloud lab
- Run Pentests on Amazon AWS Infrastructure
- Run basic commands with nmap and metasploit
- Exploit a remote Windows Server with a vulnerability
- Use Kali Linux on Browser with RDP connection
How it compares
Against the other 523 rated Udemy courses in Hacking on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 12% of them
- Reviews129#420 of 524 by number of reviews
- Length3.6 hoursshorter than 64% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2017earlier than 95% of them
Course Description
Hi, welcome to the "Cloud Ethical Hacking : Use Kali Linux on Amazon AWS" course. The only course that you need to start running Kali Linux and ethical hacking tasks on Amazon cloud!
There are a lot of options for ethical hacking & penetration testing training, but this course is designed in a way you can practice newest & best techniques on ethical hacking. Here is why:
- Instead of using your own host device, you will learn how to boot & run Kali Linux entirely on the Cloud.
- You can use any browser to access your Kali Linux.
- You will have an ethical hacking lab entirely on the cloud. This includes a Windows victim machine as well. No more cpu & memory problems, no more virtual machines in your local device.
- You won't have to spend a dime up to 1 year as you will use Amazon AWS Free Tier account for the entire training, provided that you take good care of the running instances to stay under the free limits. I will show you how you can do that.
- You can access any Linux or Windows machine, directly within your browser. You can continue working in any PC and don't lose the sessions.
- You can save the entire screen like a movie so that you can show it as a proof of actions. You can later watch these screencasts to improve your skills.
- You will practice nmap, metasploit, included in the course! Even if you are a complete beginner in cyber security and ethical hacking, or you want to refresh your skills, you will enjoy the course.
Furthermore, you can apply the skills in many hosting providers or even your own server! Amazon AWS is not the only option here. This is because some of the skills in this course is beyond the topic of ethical hacking.
The practical skills you will learn after you complete the course:
- Current limitations of an ethical hacking lab
- Benefits of running your VMs in the cloud
- How to create an Amazon Free Tier account
- How to run Kali Linux as an Amazon EC2 instance
- EC2 dashboard management
- Alternative terminal operations: A handy chrome extension for SSH sessions
- Installing xRDP to Kali Linux. This is also useful if you intend to use GUI with any Linux machine
- LXDE and XFCE session types
- Running a Windows Server as an EC2 instance, which you can use both as a victim or an attacker machine.
- Install Guacamole tool to access & operate any server using your Browser
- Nmap basics to which helps you to start scanning in no time.
- Metasploit commands to send exploits to vulnerable machines.
- Exploting a vulnerable application on Windows Server/
In a nutshell, by the end of the course, you'll be able to create your own Ethical Hacking Lab on Amazon AWS cloud from scratch, using the latest techniques which black hat hackers use to penetrate systems remotely. Better than that, it won't even take an hour to start running your machines.
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
129 Reviews
FeltSecure Labs
Frontier Education Labs and Technologies on Security, FeltSecure, is a cyber security education institution which focuses teaching IT security to anyone interested in cyber.
As a team of 10+ experienced security professionals, we provide e-learning courses and practical training services, along with the penetration testing and security auditing assistance for you.
Focusing on purely practical aspects, our mission is to cover security skills you need in your professional life!
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Reviews
By David Malcolm on 8/20/2020
The lecturer missed several critical steps. Namely how to connect to the newly connected Kali instance with qn SSH client like PuTTY and how to update the sources that apt-get looks for when installing packages. As an experienced linux user I was able to figure this out for myself but I think it would have been helpful if the lecturer had included resources on these topics and not expected the inexperienced user to google for this crucial information.
By Reginal Smith on 2/7/2019
Do not waste your money or time on this course. The material is outdated and you have to do a lot of research to fix the problems. Also, the instructor does not answer any questions. I assume the instructor is no longer monitoring the course. Many of his examples simply do not work. And he forgets to warn you that if you are not careful, you could in up racking up significant charges with the AWS setup ($380.00). This is the first time I have had to give a one star rating to a course. The unfortunate part is that the course could work if he had a serious makeover and the instructor would provide assistance instead of pointing students to fix problems with his course by turning to Google.
By Alperen Özkan on 2/10/2018
One of the biggest problem of the hacking courses are the lab environment and virtualization problems. Most of the professional education services started to have their own lab environment. However preparing your own lab environment and doing real world exercises is possible now with Amazon AWS Kali Linux. Thanks for this awesome course to the FeltSecure Labs.
By Arthur Spurr on 1/29/2018
Although I am a user of the Digital Ocean Cloud platform, after opening a free account with AWS I was a bit lost!! Thanks for this course, just to learn how to setup and host on AWS even if you don't use this platform for ethical hacking, the course is well worthwhile. Highly recommended.
By Minhac Çelik on 11/23/2017
It was really amazing. Although I have no technical background and experience after the course I have a broad sense of how several tools like nmap and metasploit is working. Of course, it does not include all you need to know about ethical hacking but I have to tell it is really a great spot to take the first step. Thank you Emin!
By John Terrell on 11/18/2017
I gained a lot of valuable knowledge on how to setup a pen testing lab in AWS. I only had issues with guacamole functionality. The instructor provided many great tips on securing the environment. I really enjoyed the course and found the information beneficial.
By Shaun on 11/5/2017
Really enjoyed the course.The quality of the video presentations including sound was of a very high quality and professionally done. The course itself covers how to setup an AWS amazon account,setup windows 2016 on your free AWS trier and install an exploit on that server so that you can use in particular nmap on Kali. After the student has configured Kali on AWS for ethical pen testing that exploit.Metasploit is the other framework used in this course to exploit the version of Windows 2016 provided by Amazon AWS. Apache guacamole is the client used as the remote desktop gateway using the RDP protocol.This is setup by using a script which is covered in the course and the reason why the RDP protocol is used instead of VNC or Microsoft remote desktop. All in all this is a very good course in my opinion.
By Sigfredo Mendez on 11/4/2017
Ive had been wanting to do this but i wasn't confident nor i understood much of aws, i was scared to rack up a big bill etc, this course is perfect as it walks you through it STEP BY STEP, no accents to get through and very well explained. Looking forward to more courses by Emin
By Tom Brown on 11/3/2017
It takes time and effort to run Kali on local devices. Thanks to cloud solutions like Amazon, I've learnt that it is now possible run Kali directly from web browsers. The course was really helpful in this respect. Clear, step-by-step, to the point. Thanks!
By Stephen Mercy on 10/30/2017
If you are looking to advance your cloud computing and security skills, then taking this course is definitely a step in the right directions. The knowledge gained will come in hardy when creating, securing and managing servers on the cloud. The instructor has done a great job and I would recommend his courses to everyone.
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