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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

Introducing Metasploit

Metasploit is classified as the world's most used penetration testing software. It is a penetration platform that enables you to work with vulnerabilities by finding, exploiting, and validating them. It is maintained by Rapid7 and comes in two editions, Metasploit Pro and the community edition called the Metasploit Framework. Of course there are more features in the Pro edition, but the features available in the community edition are not to be overlooked. The features that are included in the Metasploit Framework will provide you with enough knowledge to learn how to use the Metasploit Framework and what you can achieve by leveraging it in your penetration tests.

Metasploit's architecture is flexible and modular, which aids developers in creating working exploits as vulnerabilities are announced. The interface of Metasploit is intuitive and offers...