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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)

The IoT ecosystem

By 2020, there will be more than 50 billion connected devices. This huge number of devices will come with a huge number of new threats. As penetration testers, we need to be ready to resist this technological apocalypse. The IoT ecosystem is based on many factors, which we've also shown in the following image:

  • Business opportunities
  • Public authorities
  • Consumers
  • Infrastructure

IoT project architecture

Like any technical project, a typical IoT project is composed of many components, as follows (see the following image):

  • Remote devices
  • Data storage
  • IoT devices (for example, CCTV cameras, home routers, printers, industrial systems, and connected cars)
  • Gateway

This illustration shows a typical architecture...