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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


At the beginning of this chapter, we showed a sample architecture that the author has encountered on a number of recent events. Throughout this chapter, we reviewed and conducted the process for building your range; moreover, we looked the layers of a range to emulate a number of different potential architectures that you may encounter throughout your testing. Having said that, you may have noticed that our diagram has two firewalls and Bastion Hosts, but we have only built one; therefore, this is your challenge: to build the second firewall Bastion Host Two. Your challenge is as follows:

  • Select a firewall for your machine; there are a number of choices available, and you are free to select the one that works best for you

  • Build the interfaces, and connect machines to your firewall

  • Configure the rules and route traffic through the two firewalls; as a reminder, the routing is the key here

This challenge will allow you to continue to practice the skills we discussed in this chapter...