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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


The Kali Nethunter platform has a great deal of functionality in relation to its size. The most distinct advantage for the penetration tester is that the tools and techniques, with some variation, are basically the same between Kali Linux and Nethunter. This reduces the time necessary to learn a new set of tools, while giving the penetration tester the ability to run penetration tests from a phone or tablet. This allows the tester the ability to get closer to a target organization, while allowing for some ability to obfuscate some of their actions. Adding attacks such as the HID further allows the penetration tester to perform attacks that would not be accomplished without other tools. Nethunter is an excellent platform to include in your penetration testing kit.