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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing

By : Kevin Cardwell
Book Image

Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing

By: Kevin Cardwell

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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Recently, while working with developing labs for a client who extensively used a virtual environment, I was asked to migrate the virtual machines from VMware to Hyper-V. As I had very little experience with Hyper-V, it was a challenging task which took three weeks to complete. Satisfaction is one aspect of life which is achieved when we accept challenges and overcome the hurdles posed by them.

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