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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

Chapter 8. What's Next?

In this final chapter, we want to give you some hints and suggestions regarding possible directions of further penetration testing skills development. We'll describe the following steps that will be definitely helpful to become a professional penetration tester.

The chapter will cover the following topics:

  • Descriptions of the topics a reader can learn to develop certain penetration testing skills

  • An overview of the penetration testing courses and trainings

  • An overview of the penetration testing standards

  • An overview of the sources of information helping penetration testers stay up to date