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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 - Third Edition

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.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The technical report


The technical assessment report plays a very important role in addressing the security issues raised during the penetration testing engagement. This type of report is generally developed for techies who want to understand the core security features handled by the target system. The report will detail any vulnerabilities, how they can be exploited, what business impact they could bring, and how resistant solutions can be developed to thwart any known threats. It has to communicate with all-in-one secure guidelines for protecting the network infrastructure. So far, we have already discussed the basic elements of the executive and management reports. In the technical report, we extend these elements and include some special themes that may draw substantial interest from the technical team at the target organization. Sometimes, sections such as project objectives, vulnerability risk classification, risk matrix, statistics, testing methodology, and assumptions and limitations...