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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

Tools for report writing

When it comes to writing a penetration testing report, you may wonder how to keep track of findings. Maybe you prefer a manual method of using a word processor, or maybe you want something that is more intuitive.

Kali Linux includes a tool called Dradis, which is an open source framework that's is used by security professionals for effective information sharing. Dradis comes in a community edition and pro edition. Kali Linux contains the community edition. The professional edition contains a few interesting features, such as custom branding, 2FA, one-click reports, and the ability to export to multiple file types. However, the community edition contains the core features that the professional version has and allows you to export the results in HTML or CSV formats.

Dradis is accessible from Applications | Reporting Tools:

Figure 1: Accessing Dradis...