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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

Chapter 5.  Identifying a Methodology

In this chapter, we will look at a number of different references with respect to a testing methodology. In Chapter 1, Introducing Penetration Testing, we discussed an abstract methodology, but in this chapter, we will look into it in more detail. This is because now that we have set our initial target range environment for design, we want to look at a systematic process for our testing practice. Without a methodology in place, we fall into what is categorized as an ad hoc testing group, and this is something a professional tester should avoid; furthermore, without a plan in place we cannot cover a number of possible situations that can occur, such as scope creep and underestimating the task at hand. We will discuss the following topics:

  • Open Source System Testing Methodology Manual (OSSTMM)

  • CHECK

  • NIST SP-800-115

  • Offensive security

  • Other methodologies

  • Customization

This chapter will provide us with multiple testing methodologies so that we can make an intelligent...