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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

Commercial environments


As with the free offerings, there are a number of commercial environments that we'd do well to explore in this book. We will look at both type 1 and type 2 virtualization solutions.

vSphere

vSphere is an extremely powerful continuation of the capabilities discussed with the VMware hypervisor; the added capabilities and features make it well worth the investment to deploy sophisticated and complex virtual architectures. The tool provides many additional options above and beyond the free variant. These options are as follows:

  • Pool computing and storage resources across multiple physical hosts

  • Centralized management of multiple hosts using VMware vCenter Server

  • Improved service levels and operational efficiency

  • Live migration of virtual machines

  • Automatic load balancing, business continuity, and backup and restore capabilities for your virtual machines

As you can see, there are many optimization options in the tool; however, unless you are building a complex and sophisticated...