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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

Summary

Post-exploitation can be performed in many different ways. Sometimes, using just one tool, such as the Responder, can lead to you capturing a high privileged hash. On other occasions, you need to really work through the environment by using various techniques. In this chapter, we focused on just a few tools, but there are many more available.

In this chapter, you identified the various techniques that can be utilized when performing post-exploitation. You can now build a basic AD lab, which can be used to test your skills in post-exploitation. You have the ability to use real-world tools that are used by penetration testers and attackers. You have also gained practical hands-on skills in regards to performing various post-exploitation attacks.

In the next chapter (Chapter 12, Maintaining Control within the Environment), we will discuss persistence and how to maintain access...