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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By : Kevin Cardwell
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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By: Kevin Cardwell

Overview of this book

Security flaws and new hacking techniques emerge overnight – security professionals need to make sure they always have a way to keep . With this practical guide, learn how to build your own virtual pentesting lab environments to practice and develop your security skills. Create challenging environments to test your abilities, and overcome them with proven processes and methodologies used by global penetration testing teams. Get to grips with the techniques needed to build complete virtual machines perfect for pentest training. Construct and attack layered architectures, and plan specific attacks based on the platforms you’re going up against. Find new vulnerabilities for different kinds of systems and networks, and what these mean for your clients. Driven by a proven penetration testing methodology that has trained thousands of testers, Building Virtual Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition will prepare you for participation in professional security teams.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Readers' challenge


Throughout this chapter we identified a number of methods of completing an enterprise architecture, and identifying methods to attack it, and correspondingly create a plan that we can use when we encounter different environments during our penetration testing. Attempt the following challenges to enhance and perfect your skills:

  • Review the network diagram, and then build the enterprise network. Add the intrusion detection sensors and then practice attacking the layers at different segments, and identify what works and does not work. Once you have completed this build scripts that will perform those actions that you discovered will work. Add web application firewalls and other protections to the architecture and then test methods to evade these devices, as before create scripts and as always develop the documentation of the results. Create different types of firewalls, and test what works against these as well, how you identify the ports that are allowed, and so on.

  • For the...