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Securing Network Infrastructure

By : Sairam Jetty, Sagar Rahalkar
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Securing Network Infrastructure

By: Sairam Jetty, Sagar Rahalkar

Overview of this book

Digitization drives technology today, which is why it’s so important for organizations to design security mechanisms for their network infrastructures. Analyzing vulnerabilities is one of the best ways to secure your network infrastructure. This Learning Path begins by introducing you to the various concepts of network security assessment, workflows, and architectures. You will learn to employ open source tools to perform both active and passive network scanning and use these results to analyze and design a threat model for network security. With a firm understanding of the basics, you will then explore how to use Nessus and Nmap to scan your network for vulnerabilities and open ports and gain back door entry into a network. As you progress through the chapters, you will gain insights into how to carry out various key scanning tasks, including firewall detection, OS detection, and access management to detect vulnerabilities in your network. By the end of this Learning Path, you will be familiar with the tools you need for network scanning and techniques for vulnerability scanning and network protection. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt books: •Network Scanning Cookbook by Sairam Jetty •Network Vulnerability Assessment by Sagar Rahalkar
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Hacking embedded devices using RouterSploit


In the previous section, we learned how Metasploit can be effectively used for exploiting remote services. The targets were mainly Windows and Linux operating systems. The number of internet-connected devices is rapidly increasing. These devices have embedded firmware which are also prone to attacks. 

RouterSploit is a command-line tool which can be used for exploiting embedded devices. However, it isn't part of the default Kali Linux installation. We can install RouterSploit using the command apt-get install routersploit. Once installed it can be launched from the Terminal by typing in routersploit as shown in the following image:

 

RouterSploit has an interface very similar to that of the Metasploit console. We can quickly scan the target device using the scanners/autopwn option as shown in the following image. We simply set the target IP address and run the scanner.