COMING SOON – ☁️ Cloud IMDS Security 101

Cloud Instance Metadata Services (IMDS) are essential to cloud infrastructure — and a prime target for attackers.

This entry-level course teaches ethical hackers and cloud security professionals how IMDS works across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and how attackers exploit it for credential theft, privilege escalation, and lateral movement.

You’ll explore real-world breaches, hands-on attack simulations, and misconfiguration scenarios — gaining the skills to test, defend, and explain IMDS risks in your own environments.

🏅 CERTIFICATION

Upon completion, you will receive the CIMS – Certified IMDS Security Analyst (Entry) certificate, proving your understanding of metadata-based risks and your ability to assess and secure cloud APIs.

An optional practical exam includes cloud-lab challenges for exploiting and remediating IMDS issues.

🎯 LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the role of IMDS in AWS, Azure, and GCP architectures

• Enumerate cloud metadata endpoints and extract secrets

• Simulate IMDS credential theft using SSRF, SSRF chaining, and proxy abuse

• Explore how misconfigured permissions and tokens lead to full account compromise

• Conduct practical IMDS abuse in cloud lab environments

• Analyze real-world incidents involving IMDS exploitation

• Apply best practices: instance scoping, token protection, and IMDSv2 enforcement

• Prepare for red team, DevSecOps, or cloud security audit roles