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Penetration Testing with BackBox

By : Stefan Umit Uygur
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Penetration Testing with BackBox

By: Stefan Umit Uygur

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Jorge Armin Garcia Lopez is a very passionate Information Security Consultant from Mexico with more than six years of experience in Computer Security, Penetration Testing, Intrusion Detection/Prevention, Malware Analysis, and Incident Response. He is the leader of the Tiger team at one of the most important security companies located in Latin America and Spain. He is also a Security Researcher at Cipher Storm Ltd and is the co-founder and CEO of the most important Security Conference in Mexico called BugCON. He holds important security industry certifications such as OSCP, GCIA, and GPEN.

Shakeel Ali is a Security and Risk Management Consultant at Fortune 500. Previously, he was a key founder of Cipher Storm Ltd., UK. He is also the co-author of BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing, Packt Publishing, which is also a book on Penetration Testing. His expertise in the security industry markedly exceeds the standard number of security assessments, audits, compliance, governance, and incident-response projects that he carries out in day-to-day operations. As a senior security evangelist, and having spent endless nights, he provides constant security support to various businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies globally. He is an active independent researcher who writes various articles, whitepapers, and manages a blog at Ethical-Hacker.net. He also regularly participates in BugCon Security Conferences held in Mexico, to highlight the best-of-breed cyber security threats and their solutions from practically driven countermeasures.

Sreenath Sasikumar is a web security analyst who heads the cyber security division at Digital Brand Group (DBG). He is an active member of OSWAP and a volunteer at Mozilla Firefox. After a good stint with IBM where he worked with enterprise clients such as AT&T, he was a part of QBust, empowering him to work with top-tier clients such as British Telecom and Plusnet. He started the security testing division at QBurst and was also responsible for creating several internal security-testing tools. Being an ardent lover of open source, he has created eight Mozilla add-ons, of which Clear Console was listed as the best add-on of the month in March 2013. It was also selected as one of the best Mozilla add-ons of 2013. With a user base of more than 44,000, it has registered more than 3,50,000 downloads till date. He has also created the world's first one-of-the-kind security testing browser bundle, PenQ. He supports OWASP and initiated the official Google+ community of OWASP and also contributes to its projects. Sreenath is a regular speaker at the Coffee@DBG series, which is an open walk-in session for technology enthusiasts from over 280 firms in Technopark, Trivandrum. He has also spoken on webinars and at Google DevFest '13, Technopark GTech Conference, and Unicom Testing Conference.