Book description
With Kali Linux you can test the vulnerabilities of your network and then take steps to secure it. This engaging tutorial is a comprehensive guide to this penetration testing platform, specially written for IT security professionals.
In Detail
Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement.
Kali Linux ? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
What You Will Learn
- Develop the Kali Linux environment in your test lab by installing, configuring, running, and updating its core system components
- Perform a formal Kali Linux testing methodology
- Scope your target with definitive test requirements, limitations, business objectives, and schedule the test plan
- Exercise a number of security tools from Kali Linux, logically divided into subcategories of testing methodology
- Practice the processes of reconnaissance, discovery, enumeration, vulnerability mapping, social engineering, exploitation, privilege escalation, and maintaining access to target for evaluation purposes
- Document, report, and present your verified test results to the relevant authorities in a formal reporting structure
Table of contents
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Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
- Table of Contents
- Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Disclaimer
- Preface
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I. Lab Preparation and Testing Procedures
- 1. Beginning with Kali Linux
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2. Penetration Testing Methodology
- Types of penetration testing
- Vulnerability assessment versus penetration testing
- Security testing methodologies
- Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES)
- General penetration testing framework
- The ethics
- Summary
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II. Penetration Testers Armory
- 3. Target Scoping
- 4. Information Gathering
- 5. Target Discovery
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6. Enumerating Target
- Introducing port scanning
- The network scanner
- SMB enumeration
- SNMP enumeration
- VPN enumeration
- Summary
- 7. Vulnerability Mapping
- 8. Social Engineering
- 9. Target Exploitation
- 10. Privilege Escalation
- 11. Maintaining Access
- 12. Documentation and Reporting
- III. Extra Ammunition
- Index
Product information
- Title: Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2014
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849519489
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