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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

Where Do I Go from Here?

Concluding the book, we look at how to keep abreast with what is happening in the penetration testing field. Building your skills and knowledge is an ongoing process in any profession. As you invest your time and energy, you will certainly see the results as your skills grow.

In this chapter, you will learn what resources are available that you can leverage to take your career further by expanding your knowledge. We will look at where to go for toolkit maintenance. And finally, we will look at the various resources that can be used to test your skills and offer new challenges.

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

  • Knowledge maintenance
  • Toolkit maintenance
  • Purposely vulnerable resources