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Learn Penetration Testing

By : Rishalin Pillay
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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

Discovering post-exploitation techniques

When performing post-exploitation, there are a number of techniques that you will need to be aware of. These techniques are what you will leverage when you are engaged in a penetration test. For example, consider a scenario where you might compromise a standard user who doesn't have access to many resources on a network. Your goal (as defined in the scope of the penetration test) is to obtain domain dominance and create a high privileged user account. How would you progress? This is where understanding the different techniques of post-exploitation comes in, as you will be able to see gaps that can be leveraged to bring you closer to your goal.

We will cover some of these techniques in this section.

Lateral movement

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