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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 7. Assessment of Devices

In this chapter, we will learn the techniques of assessing different types of devices. We will also look at the methods of testing weak filters during our testing engagement. We will cover the following topics:

  • Assessing routers

  • Evaluating switches

  • Attacking the firewall

  • Identifying firewall rules

  • Tricks of penetrating filters

This chapter will provide us with a methodology to assess what devices are in place and how they are protected; it is important to discover the level of skill of the administrator that we are going up against. A hardened and well-configured environment will present a significant challenge. However, our job as professional testers is to accept the challenge, see what we can discover, and draft a report of the findings.