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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 different methodologies, and as we further discussed, the recommendation is to create your own methodologies based on the ones that were discussed within the chapter as a reference. Your challenge is as follows:

  1. Taking the methodologies within the chapter for an example, draft and build your own custom methodology by taking the components from each methodology that you like best and combining them into your own one.

  2. Once you have created your methodology, experiment with it and practice it against the range you created in the previous chapter.

This challenge will allow you to experiment with the different components of a variety of methodologies, and this will provide you with plenty of practice within your pen testing range, and that is where you should enhance and hone your skills.