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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)

Software-Defined Network penetration testing

A Software-Defined Network (SDN) is a network architecture with a centralized fully programmable controller that has a view of all the paths and devices of a network in one entity. That is why, it is considered as a single point of configuration. This huge automation shift adds great value to a corporate network. The graph below represent the different SDN layers and the interactions between them:

In the classic networking stack, every component implements two aspects: control and data entities. But in SDNs, we isolate these two panels. The following diagram illustrates the difference between the two networking approaches:

There are three main SDN models:

  • The network virtualization model
  • The evolutionary model
  • The OpenFlow model

A typical SDN architecture is composed of the following three main components:

  • SDN controller: This...