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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

By : Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

By: Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano

Overview of this book

Kali NetHunter is a version of the popular and powerful Kali Linux pentesting platform, designed to be installed on mobile devices. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter will teach you the components of NetHunter and how to install the software. You’ll also learn about the different tools included and how to optimize and use a package, obtain desired results, perform tests, and make your environment more secure. Starting with an introduction to Kali NetHunter, you will delve into different phases of the pentesting process. This book will show you how to build your penetration testing environment and set up your lab. You will gain insight into gathering intellectual data, exploiting vulnerable areas, and gaining control over target systems. As you progress through the book, you will explore the NetHunter tools available for exploiting wired and wireless devices. You will work through new ways to deploy existing tools designed to reduce the chances of detection. In the concluding chapters, you will discover tips and best practices for integrating security hardening into your Android ecosystem. By the end of this book, you will have learned to successfully use a mobile penetration testing device based on Kali NetHunter and Android to accomplish the same tasks you would traditionally, but in a smaller and more mobile form factor.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Hardening Techniques and Countermeasures

Getting into the field of penetration testing and offensive security is always quite exciting; it's fun to learn the art of exploitation on systems and networks. At times, your career path may shift a bit from hacking into a client's network to assisting an organization in securing its network infrastructure from hackers and other potential threats. Over the past few years, so many cyberattacks have been reported every day. Let's not forget about the organizations that have not reported a cyberattack within their local network as they are trying to protect their organizational reputation, and lastly, those who have not yet detected an intrusion on their network.

Quite often, organizations create jobs to hire new people as cybersecurity professionals but the titles and job descriptions are not purely in line with penetration testing, but rather as a security administrator or security engineer. These roles usually consist of the function...