The cloud has significantly changed how we approach data storage, web application design, deployment, and management. With services from platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, both businesses and individual developers can benefit from the cloud’s adaptability and scale to enhance their digital solutions.
However, alongside the benefits, the cloud introduces unique security challenges. Web applications, APIs and more, especially those hosted in cloud environments, are constantly at risk of vulnerabilities, ranging from misconfigurations in cloud settings to more intrinsic application-level vulnerabilities. Within this landscape, I set out to build two scenarios for application vulnerability testing, aiming to showcase the importance and efficiency of vulnerability detection techniques in a cloud-driven world.
While we would want to tackle vulnerabilities before they are being deployed to production and externally exposed, sometimes the defense strategies on these areas could be missing the real world implications of tying several functionalities together. That’s where the external testing comes into place.
In this article, I’ll discuss how I built these scenarios and how we can detect their vulnerabilities.
To help us detect these vulnerabilities, we utilized Nuclei, an open-source scanning tool that streamlines the identification of web application vulnerabilities through a series of predefined templates. We also used AI to help us create templates quickly and easily. These templates are crucial as they target specific vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and issues we’re on the lookout for...read more!
