In this chapter, we have explored some basic steps necessary to create a penetration testing report and discussed the core aspects of doing a presentation in front of the client. At first, we fully explained the methods of documenting your results from individual tools and suggested not to rely on single tools for your final results. As such, your experience and knowledge counts in verifying the test results before they are documented. Make sure to keep your skills updated and sufficient to manually verify the findings when needed. Afterwards, we shed light on creating different types of reports, with their documentation structures. These reports mainly focus on executive, managerial, and technical aspects of the security audit we carried out for our client. Additionally, we also provided a sample table of contents for a network-based penetration testing report to give you a basic idea for writing your own report. Thereafter, we discussed the value of live presentation and simulations...
Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition
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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
Free Chapter
Beginning with Kali Linux
Penetration Testing Methodology
Target Scoping
Information Gathering
Target Discovery
Enumerating Target
Vulnerability Mapping
Social Engineering
Target Exploitation
Privilege Escalation
Maintaining Access
Wireless Penetration Testing
Kali Nethunter
Documentation and Reporting
Supplementary Tools
Key Resources
Index
Customer Reviews