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Learn Kali Linux 2019

By : Glen D. Singh
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Learn Kali Linux 2019

By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

The current rise in hacking and security breaches makes it more important than ever to effectively pentest your environment, ensuring endpoint protection. This book will take you through the latest version of Kali Linux and help you use various tools and techniques to efficiently deal with crucial security aspects. Through real-world examples, you’ll understand how to set up a lab and later explore core penetration testing concepts. Throughout the course of this book, you’ll get up to speed with gathering sensitive information and even discover different vulnerability assessment tools bundled in Kali Linux 2019. In later chapters, you’ll gain insights into concepts such as social engineering, attacking wireless networks, exploitation of web applications and remote access connections to further build on your pentesting skills. You’ll also focus on techniques such as bypassing controls, attacking the end user and maintaining persistence access through social media. Finally, this pentesting book covers best practices for performing complex penetration testing techniques in a highly secured environment. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use Kali Linux to detect vulnerabilities and secure your system by applying penetration testing techniques of varying complexity.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Section 1: Kali Linux Basics
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Section 2: Reconnaissance
9
Section 3: Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2019

Network Penetration Testing - Detection and Security

Understanding the concept of network security as a penetration tester is an asset in itself. In this chapter, we will focus on the cybersecurity operational side of things. Understanding how to detect threats and suspicious network traffic patterns is important as it will assist the IT security team in detecting and stopping attacks across the network. You will learn about various blue team tactics that are used to detect and prevent cyberattacks within an organization's network infrastructure. After submitting a penetration test report to the customer, the customer may ask for additional services that allow them to detect and prevent cyber threats in their organization. This chapter will aid you in getting started with suspicious traffic monitoring and prevention techniques.

In this chapter, we will cover the following...