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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

The importance of a penetration testing report

Don't underestimate the importance of reporting. A penetration test report serves as a way for you to tell your story of navigating through the target organization and discovering vulnerabilities. It allows you to communicate important information to stakeholders such as the executive and IT management teams. This will help them to drive remediation efforts and provide executive backing to any policies that may need to be created or updated to address risks that were discovered. Remember that, with information security, if there is no backing by an executive stake holder, policies are bound to fail.

For technical teams, the report provides a clear picture of how vulnerable their environment is. It will provide them with the full technical details of what is vulnerable, why it is vulnerable, who it will affect, and how the vulnerability...