Book Image

Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By : Kevin Cardwell
Book Image

Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By: Kevin Cardwell

Overview of this book

Security flaws and new hacking techniques emerge overnight – security professionals need to make sure they always have a way to keep . With this practical guide, learn how to build your own virtual pentesting lab environments to practice and develop your security skills. Create challenging environments to test your abilities, and overcome them with proven processes and methodologies used by global penetration testing teams. Get to grips with the techniques needed to build complete virtual machines perfect for pentest training. Construct and attack layered architectures, and plan specific attacks based on the platforms you’re going up against. Find new vulnerabilities for different kinds of systems and networks, and what these mean for your clients. Driven by a proven penetration testing methodology that has trained thousands of testers, Building Virtual Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition will prepare you for participation in professional security teams.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Open source and free environments


There are a number of free and open source virtual environments; we will look at some of the more popular ones here. In this section, we will discuss the following products:

  • VMware Workstation Player

  • VirtualBox

  • Xen

  • Hyper-V

  • vSphere Hypervisor

  • VMware Workstation Pro

VMware Workstation Player

The team at VMware has created a number of different products that are available for free. At the time of writing this book, VMware Workstation Player (formerly known as VMware Player) is available free of charge. One of the biggest limitations in the past was the fact that you could not use VMware Workstation Player to build and create virtual machines. Thankfully, the latest versions allow you to create machines. The limitations of the current version are in the networking department; this is because you cannot create additional switches with the VMware Workstation Player tool. For our purpose of building virtual pen testing labs, this is something that we really need, and if...