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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

Getting Started with Kali Linux

In this chapter, we will dive into Kali Linux as our penetration testing platform of choice. Kali Linux has a variety of installation options, so we will explore what options exist and examine how to use them. After demonstrating the installation process, there are some initial tasks that need to be done on Kali Linux, so we will work through the initial setup to ensure that we are ready to start working with Kali Linux. Scripting should already be part of your arsenal, so we will dive into basic scripting and then start exploring some of the common tools that are available on Kali Linux.

As you progress through this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

  • An introduction to Kali Linux
  • Installing and configuring Kali Linux
  • Basic commands in Kali Linux
  • Scripting in Kali Linux
  • The essential tools of Kali Linux
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