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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments, Second Edition - Second Edition

By : Lee Allen, Kevin Cardwell
Book Image

Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments, Second Edition - Second Edition

By: Lee Allen, Kevin Cardwell

Overview of this book

The defences continue to improve and become more and more common, but this book will provide you with a number or proven techniques to defeat the latest defences on the networks. The methods and techniques contained will provide you with a powerful arsenal of best practices to increase your penetration testing successes. The processes and methodology will provide you techniques that will enable you to be successful, and the step by step instructions of information gathering and intelligence will allow you to gather the required information on the targets you are testing. The exploitation and post-exploitation sections will supply you with the tools you would need to go as far as the scope of work will allow you. The challenges at the end of each chapter are designed to challenge you and provide real-world situations that will hone and perfect your penetration testing skills. You will start with a review of several well respected penetration testing methodologies, and following this you will learn a step-by-step methodology of professional security testing, including stealth, methods of evasion, and obfuscation to perform your tests and not be detected! The final challenge will allow you to create your own complex layered architecture with defences and protections in place, and provide the ultimate testing range for you to practice the methods shown throughout the book. The challenge is as close to an actual penetration test assignment as you can get!
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Miscellaneous evasion techniques


The level of detection avoidance that can be accomplished varies from network to network. When performing the test, keep in mind that, in this day and age, resources are usually very limited and administrators are overworked and underappreciated. Focus on bypassing the automated detection methodologies, and you are unlikely to be found by an active and eager admin unless your traffic and behavior patterns are drastically different from those of the average power user. When sniffing traffic and looking at network connections and activity, you should be able to get an idea of what is considered normal traffic on the network.

Divide and conquer

When performing scans, it may be a good idea to use multiple sources to originate the scan from. This is more likely to be possible in large networks, after a few people have clicked the links to your social engineering campaign page. Once you have several machines under your control, it is not advisable to scan from a...