Pentesting AWS Practitioner

Intermediate Course-end practical/theory assessment (provider format) Pass: Provider-defined threshold; check portal for curr… $249

PAWSP provides practitioner-oriented AWS pentesting foundations and applied cloud attack-path methodology. For 2026, focus on IAM escalation paths, metadata abuse controls, and practical validation discipline.

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IssuerAltered Security

FormatCourse-end practical/theory assessment (provider format)

DurationSelf-paced with timed assessments as defined by provider

Pass ScoreProvider-defined threshold; check portal for curr…

Overview Syllabus (5) Tools (6) Cheat Sheets (2) Labs (3)

Full Syllabus

Cloud Recon & Identity Enumeration 20%

Tenant/account discovery, IAM principal analysis, trust relationships.

Identity & Access Abuse 25%

Privilege escalation paths, role abuse, token misuse and policy weaknesses.

Data Plane & Service Misconfiguration 20%

Storage exposure, compute metadata abuse, serverless/container weaknesses.

Hybrid/Control Plane Attack Paths 20%

Federation, CI/CD, key management, conditional access and cross-service chaining.

Detection, Reporting & Remediation Priorities 15%

Cloud-native logging evidence, business impact, prioritized fixes.