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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Lee Allen, Kevin Cardwell
Book Image

Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Lee Allen, Kevin Cardwell

Overview of this book

The defences continue to improve and become more and more common, but this book will provide you with a number or proven techniques to defeat the latest defences on the networks. The methods and techniques contained will provide you with a powerful arsenal of best practices to increase your penetration testing successes. The processes and methodology will provide you techniques that will enable you to be successful, and the step by step instructions of information gathering and intelligence will allow you to gather the required information on the targets you are testing. The exploitation and post-exploitation sections will supply you with the tools you would need to go as far as the scope of work will allow you. The challenges at the end of each chapter are designed to challenge you and provide real-world situations that will hone and perfect your penetration testing skills. You will start with a review of several well respected penetration testing methodologies, and following this you will learn a step-by-step methodology of professional security testing, including stealth, methods of evasion, and obfuscation to perform your tests and not be detected! The final challenge will allow you to create your own complex layered architecture with defences and protections in place, and provide the ultimate testing range for you to practice the methods shown throughout the book. The challenge is as close to an actual penetration test assignment as you can get!
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Data gathering, network analysis, and pillaging


Once a system has been compromised, it is advisable to fully enumerate the device. Any valuable clues or information need to be located and properly managed in a quick and efficient manner. During this phase, the focus should be on gathering credentials and fully enumerating installed services, network configurations, and access history. It may also be beneficial to determine what type of network or environment the system is running in. Is the network segmented, are there multiple IPs associated with the device, or is it actually virtualized, such as our test network?

Tip

Creating a list of commands and procedures used when reviewing a compromised system will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the entire test. Having such a plan of action also makes the reporting phase easier and eliminates the chance that something important was missed during the testing phases.

Linux

Many corporations are moving toward open source operating systems...