CEH Practice Question: Advanced Topics: Wireless, Cloud, IoT, Cryptography
Which TWO of the following tools are used for cloud security auditing or exploitation?
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ScoutSuite
ScoutSuite is an auditing tool and Pacu is an exploitation framework for cloud environments.
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ScoutSuite
Why this is correct
ScoutSuite is a security auditing tool for cloud environments.
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John the Ripper
Why it's wrong here
John the Ripper is a password cracker, not cloud-specific.
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Pacu
Why this is correct
Pacu is an AWS exploitation framework.
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Nessus
Why it's wrong here
Nessus is a general vulnerability scanner, not cloud-specific.
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Aircrack-ng
Why it's wrong here
Aircrack-ng is for wireless, not cloud.
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