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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 (15 chapters)
Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Configuring Networking Lab Components

We have already spent enough time on the preparations for building a lab and now it is finally time to actually start building it.

In this chapter, we will show you the configuration of hardware and virtual network devices for both the options of building a lab, so you can easily choose the one that fits your needs best.

The chapter consists of the following topics:

  • General lab network communication rules

  • Configuring hardware wired devices

  • Configuring virtual wired network devices

  • Configuring WLANs