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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)

Linux attack vectors

An attack is an actual act by a threat agent against assets of an information system. The path used to attack the target is called an attack vector. There are three main types of attack vector and threat:

  • Network threats: This refers to the threat against the networks of the organization
  • Host threats: These are the threats against the host, including hardware and the operating system
  • Application threats: This refers to the threat against the system programs

Linux enumeration with LinEnum

Enumeration is a key for every successful attack. It is a critical phase in hacking systems, and a vital part of information gathering. During this phase, the attacker establishes a connection between them and the target...