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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

4.2 (5)
By: Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
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Documentation and results verification

A substantial amount of vulnerability verification will be necessary, in most cases, to ensure that your findings are actually exploitable. Mitigation efforts can be expensive and as such, vulnerability verification is a critical task in terms of your reputation and integrity. In our experience, we have noticed several situations where people just run a tool, grab the results, and present them directly to their clients. This type of irresponsibility and lack of control over your assessment may result in serious consequences and cause the downfall of your career. In situations where there are false negatives, it might even place the client at risk by selling a false sense of security. Thus, the integrity of test data should not be tainted with errors and inconsistencies. Following are a couple of procedures that may help you in documenting and verifying the test results before transforming them into a final report:

  • Taking detailed notes: Take detailed...
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