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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)

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

Active Directory uses Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) as an access protocol, which relies on the TCP/IP stack. The LDAP supports Kerberos authentication.

This protocol uses an inverted-tree hierarchical structure, so every entry has a defined position. This structure is called the Directory Information Tree (DIT). The Distinguished Name (DN) represents the full path of the entry.

The following diagram represents the different interaction between the users (Common Name (CN)). Filter groups are restricted to some applications: