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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

About the Reviewer

Joseph Muniz is an architect at Cisco Systems and a security researcher. He started his career in software development and later managed networks as a contracted technical resource. He moved into consulting and found a passion for security while meeting with a variety of customers. He has been involved in the design and implementation of multiple projects, ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to large federal networks. He has spoken at popular security conferences such as RSA, DEFCON, and Cisco Live on various topics. You can learn more about him by visiting his blogs at http://www.thesecurityblogger.com/.

Joseph has authored the following books as well as contributing to many other publications:

  • Security Operations Center: Building, Operating and Maintaining your SOC—November 2015 Cisco Press

  • Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi—January 2015 Packt Publishing

  • Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux—August 2013 Packt Publishing

I would like to give a huge thank you to my friends and family for supporting me in this and my other crazy projects. This book goes out to Irene Muniz, Ray Muniz, Alex and Martha Muniz, Raylin Muniz, my friends at Cisco, and the many other great people in my life.