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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

By : Andrey Popov, Vyacheslav Fadyushin, Aaron Woody
Book Image

Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

By: Andrey Popov, Vyacheslav Fadyushin, Aaron 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

Host-based security solutions


The second class of security solutions that we are going to cover in the current chapter is host-based solutions. Such solutions are installed on the same hosts which they have to protect.

You need to have a host-based security solution in your lab mainly for two purposes: to practice firewall/IPS evasion techniques and to test the detectability and obfuscation of your exploits (payloads) and malware. But, as always, there could be other personal reasons for having such security measures.

Workstation security

To better imitate a real enterprise network and create a possibility for testing various evasion techniques, we are going to install free endpoint security solutions on our lab workstations.

We recommend that you create snapshots of your workstations before installing any host-based security solutions, as they will definitely make penetrating workstations a bit problematic and you don't need it before you proceed to an advanced hacking level. Using snapshots...