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

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

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

Network vulnerability scanning


The tools in this category involve scanning network devices for vulnerabilities. These include common devices such as Cisco products, as well as network protocols such as Server Message Block (SMB) and the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Scanning for and assessing these vulnerabilities requires local access to the target network, and is often done from an internal source.

Cisco analysis

Cisco products are one of the top networking devices found in major corporate and government organizations today. This not only increases the threat and attack landscape for Cisco devices, but also presents a significant challenge to exploit them. Some of the most popular technologies developed by Cisco include routers, switches, security appliances, wireless products, and software such as IOS, NX-OS, Security Device Manager, CiscoWorks, Unified Communications Manager, and many others. In this section, we will exercise some Cisco-related security tools that are provided...