Throughout the previous chapters, there has been a preparation to show you a simulated example of new age exploitation. This means, we are taking advantage of misconfigurations, default settings, bad practices, and a lack of security awareness. Instead of control gaps being found in the developed code, it is instead within the implementation in an environment to include training of its people. The specific manner of entering or moving through a network will depend on the network, and attack vectors change, instead of memorizing a specific vector, focus on building a mind-set.

Exploitation today means the identification of already present accesses, and stealing a component of that access, compromising systems with that access level, capturing details on those systems, and moving laterally till you identify critical data or new levels of access. Once you identify access into a system, you are going to try and find details that will allow you...