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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)

Continuous integration with GitHub and Jenkins

We have had an overview of development methodologies and the different product life cycle processes. Now let's learn how to build a real-world CI environment using GitHub and the Jenkins CI server, illustrated here:

Jenkins is an open source automation server. Thanks to its ability to automate tasks, it can perform CI. You can download it from https://jenkins.io/:

Installing Jenkins

During the demonstration, we are going to use an Ubuntu 16.04 machine. To install Jenkins, you need to add the repository key, add the Jenkins Debian package repository to the sources.list file using the echo command, and update the sources.list file by typing:

apt-get update

Now, install Jenkins...