Path Overview
Master AWS IAM privilege escalation through hands-on learning designed for security professionals and cloud practitioners. This specialized path equips you with the practical skills to identify, exploit, and defend against common IAM vulnerabilities through real-world scenarios. Starting with essential IAM fundamentals and enumeration techniques, you’ll progress to executing actual privilege escalation attacks using multiple different IAM actions that are frequently misconfigured. The path culminates in challenging labs where you’ll apply your skills in realistic environments—extracting secret API keys and accessing protected military schematics. This 100% hands-on learning experience transforms abstract security concepts into practical expertise you can immediately apply to secure cloud environments and advance your cloud security career.
What You’ll Learn
- Identify and exploit AWS IAM privilege escalation attack paths
- Learn IAM enumeration techniques
- Execute hands-on attacks in realistic lab environments
- Learn how to access sensitive resources like Secrets Manager, KMS, and S3
- Complete real-world security challenges that simulate actual cloud penetration testing scenarios
- Think like an attacker to better secure AWS deployments against common security mistakes
Prerequisites
- Basic familiarity with AWS. If you have no prior AWS experience, this path will be challenging.
- Basic understanding of security concepts such as authentication and authorization
The labs shown separately in this path are integrated components of the listed courses. We display them individually to provide visibility into course content. For the best learning experience and to properly track your progress and completion, we recommend enrolling in the full courses rather than individual labs.
