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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
Book Image

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The executive report


The executive report, a type of assessment report, is shorter and more concise to point out a high-level view of the penetration testing output from a business strategy perspective. The report is prepared for C-level executives within a target organization (CEO, CTO, CIO, and so on). It must be populated with some basic elements, as follows:

  • Project objective: This section defines the mutually agreed criteria for the penetration testing project between you and your client.

  • Vulnerability risk classification: This section explains the risk levels (critical, high, medium, low, and informational) used in the report. These levels should clearly differentiate and highlight the technical security exposure in terms of severity.

  • Executive summary: This section briefly describes the purpose and goal of the penetration testing assignment under the defined methodology. It also highlights the number of vulnerabilities discovered and successfully exploited.

  • Statistics: This section...