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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Overview of this book

It has always been difficult to gain hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of advanced penetration testing techniques and vulnerability assessment and management. This book will be your one-stop solution to compromising complex network devices and modern operating systems. This book provides you with advanced penetration testing techniques that will help you exploit databases, web and application servers, switches or routers, Docker, VLAN, VoIP, and VPN. With this book, you will explore exploitation abilities such as offensive PowerShell tools and techniques, CI servers, database exploitation, Active Directory delegation, kernel exploits, cron jobs, VLAN hopping, and Docker breakouts. Moving on, this book will not only walk you through managing vulnerabilities, but will also teach you how to ensure endpoint protection. Toward the end of this book, you will also discover post-exploitation tips, tools, and methodologies to help your organization build an intelligent security system. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills and methodologies needed to breach infrastructures and provide complete endpoint protection for your system.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Open Systems Interconnection model

Networking is a vital component in every modern organization and for every individual. To facilitate data communication and handling, the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) standardization model has evolved. The data moves around networks following a specific order. This order is presented by seven steps and layers; the OSI model contains seven layers. You can remember the layers from top to bottom using this phrase All People Seem To Need Data Processing:

  • Application layer: This layer contains all the required services for software applications.
  • Presentation layer: This layer is mostly responsible for how the data is presented. The operations may include compression and encryption.
  • Session layer: This layer provides the communication procedures between the hosts (starting a session, restarting, termination, and so on).
  • Transport layer: This...