Book Image

Learn Penetration Testing

By : Rishalin Pillay
Book Image

Learn Penetration Testing

By: Rishalin Pillay

Overview of this book

Sending information via the internet is not entirely private, as evidenced by the rise in hacking, malware attacks, and security threats. With the help of this book, you'll learn crucial penetration testing techniques to help you evaluate enterprise defenses. You'll start by understanding each stage of pentesting and deploying target virtual machines, including Linux and Windows. Next, the book will guide you through performing intermediate penetration testing in a controlled environment. With the help of practical use cases, you'll also be able to implement your learning in real-world scenarios. By studying everything from setting up your lab, information gathering and password attacks, through to social engineering and post exploitation, you'll be able to successfully overcome security threats. The book will even help you leverage the best tools, such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, Burp Suite, and other open source pentesting tools to perform these techniques. Toward the later chapters, you'll focus on best practices to quickly resolve security threats. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with various penetration testing techniques so as to be able to tackle security threats effectively
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Exploitation
12
Section 3: Post Exploitation
16
Section 4: Putting It All Together

The components of a web application

Web applications have evolved from being static web pages to complex applications that provide a multitude of functionality. You can think of a web application as a normal computer application that simply operates over the internet.

In this section, we will discuss the various components of web applications.

Web application architecture

Web application architecture is the interaction between various components. The three primary types of web application architecture are as follows:

  • Single-Page Applications (SPA): These are common now, with minimalism being the in thing for web applications. These work by dynamically updating content to the current page. Asynchronous Javascript and XML ...