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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By : Kevin Cardwell
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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

Converting from a physical to a virtual environment


Another option in many of the tools that can be used to help us when we create machines is the physical-to-virtual functionality, sometimes referred to as the P2V concept. Furthermore, this provides us with the capability to build any machine, run the conversion process to take the physical machine, and then convert it to a virtual machine. This functionality allows you to build a custom pen-testing platform machine and then perform the conversion and carry the machine anywhere you go out in the field. We have a couple of options to discuss. There is a free option provided by VMware that we can use, called vCenter Converter. With this tool, you can convert not only physical Windows machines, but also Linux. To try it out and see how well it works, you can download it from http://www.vmware.com/products/converter/.

We have another option, that is, using the feature from our VMware Workstation Pro installation. This should be your preferred...