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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

Preparing your presentation


It is helpful to understand the technical capabilities and goals of your audience in order to accomplish a successful presentation. You will need to tweak the material according to your audience; otherwise, you will face a negative reaction. Your key task is to make your client understand the potential risk factors surrounding the areas you have tested. For instance, managers at the executive level may not have time to worry about the details of a social engineering attack vector, but they will be interested in knowing the current state of security and what remediation measures should be taken to improve their security posture.

Although there is no formal procedure to create and present your findings, you should keep a professional outlook to make the best of your technical and non-technical audiences. It is also a part of your duty to understand the target environment and its group of techies by gauging their skill levels and helping them know you well—as much...