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

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
Book Image

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

Post-testing procedures


Remediation measures, corrective steps, and recommendations are all terms referring to post-testing procedures. During this procedure, you act as an advisor to the remediation team at the target organization. In this capacity, you may be required to interact with a number of technical people with different backgrounds, so keep in mind that your social appearance and networking skills can be of great value here.

Additionally, it is not possible to hold all sets of knowledge required by the target IT environment unless you are trained for it. In such situations, it is quite challenging to handle and remediate every single piece of vulnerable resource without getting any support from a network of experts. We have constituted several generic guidelines that may help you in pushing critical recommendations to your client:

  • Revisit the network design and check for exploitable conditions at vulnerable resources pointed out in the report.

  • Concentrate on the edge-level or data...