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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Overview of this book

It has always been difficult to gain hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of advanced penetration testing techniques and vulnerability assessment and management. This book will be your one-stop solution to compromising complex network devices and modern operating systems. This book provides you with advanced penetration testing techniques that will help you exploit databases, web and application servers, switches or routers, Docker, VLAN, VoIP, and VPN. With this book, you will explore exploitation abilities such as offensive PowerShell tools and techniques, CI servers, database exploitation, Active Directory delegation, kernel exploits, cron jobs, VLAN hopping, and Docker breakouts. Moving on, this book will not only walk you through managing vulnerabilities, but will also teach you how to ensure endpoint protection. Toward the end of this book, you will also discover post-exploitation tips, tools, and methodologies to help your organization build an intelligent security system. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills and methodologies needed to breach infrastructures and provide complete endpoint protection for your system.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Cryptography

In the art of cryptology, we have two different sciences: cryptography and cryptanalysis. Cryptography secures information based on mathematical algorithms, while cryptanalysis deals with exposing ciphertexts created by cryptography systems. These two sciences coexist side by side. More simply, cryptography deals with hiding information, and cryptanalysis breaks cryptosystems to reveal the hidden information. Cryptography is not a new science, it is old. There are some classical cryptography techniques, such as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, scytale, Vigenère cipher, the Caesar cipher, and the ROT13 cipher.

Cryptosystems

The implementation of cryptographic techniques is called a cryptosystem...