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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)

Docker exploitation

You learned how to install and configure Docker containers. As a penetration tester, you need to be aware of the potential security issues and the potential threats against Docker systems. According to ClusterHQ in 2015, more than 60% of enterprises are concerned about containers' security more than any other issue in the Docker production environment. There are many security concerns that face Docker containers. In order to do that, penetration testers should consider the following common container security challenges and vectors:

  • Kernel exploits
  • Denial-of-service (DoS)
  • Container breakout
  • Poisoned images
  • Data theft

Kernel exploits

Docker containers are running on servers, but remember that there...