The term IoT was crafted by Kevin Ashton from the media center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It describes a network of physical devices including cameras, vehicles, and sensors. The IoT is exponentially adopted and it represents undeniable promises and possibilities. This rapid adoption opened the doors for new business opportunities, but on the other hand, revealed new threats and weaknesses from a security perspective. This chapter will be your savior. Thus, it will take you from understanding the IoT ecosystem, to knowing how to defend against the real-world IoT attacks. In fact, in this chapter, you will gain the required skills to be ready to secure IoT projects, after learning how to exploit IoT environments starting from the smallest devices to connected cars. According to the F5 Labs report, IoT attacks exploded by 280% in...
Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing
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.
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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Introduction to Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing
Advanced Linux Exploitation
Corporate Network and Database Exploitation
Active Directory Exploitation
Docker Exploitation
Exploiting Git and Continuous Integration Servers
Metasploit and PowerShell for Post-Exploitation
VLAN Exploitation
VoIP Exploitation
Insecure VPN Exploitation
Routing and Router Vulnerabilities
Internet of Things Exploitation
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