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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

By : Popov, Fadyushin, Woody
Book Image

Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

By: Popov, Fadyushin, Woody

Overview of this book

Starting with the basics of wireless networking and its associated risks, we will guide you through the stages of creating a penetration testing lab with wireless access and preparing your wireless penetration testing machine. This book will guide you through configuring hardware and virtual network devices, filling the lab network with applications and security solutions, and making it look and work like a real enterprise network. The resulting lab protected with WPA-Enterprise will let you practice most of the attack techniques used in penetration testing projects. Along with a review of penetration testing frameworks, this book is also a detailed manual on preparing a platform for wireless penetration testing. By the end of this book, you will be at the point when you can practice, and research without worrying about your lab environment for every task.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
9
Index

Understanding what tasks your lab should fulfill


Under this topic, we are going to help you to determine your needs and what you want to achieve with your lab. After understanding your needs, you will be able to set requirements for your lab—stating what should it contain and how should its components interact. This step allows you to prepare the basis of the next step—deciding which lab components do you need to include in a lab and which roles to assign them.

Objectives of a lab

Let's start from listing the typical purposes for having a lab:

  • Learn practical penetration testing: It is essential for a beginner to have an environment where they can practice penetration testing techniques they learn and consolidate newly learned information. During this education, you most likely will want to have a model of a real-world corporate network and you can emulate it in a lab.

  • Improve and maintain penetration testing skills: Experienced professionals also need a lab to periodically try some new attack...