Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide: Learn to perform professional penetration testing for highly-secured environments with this intensive hands-on guide with this book and ebook.
Learn how to perform an efficient, organized, and effective penetration test from start to finish
Gain hands-on penetration testing experience by building and testing a virtual lab environment that includes commonly found security measures such as IDS and firewalls
Take the challenge and perform a virtual penetration test against a fictional corporation from start to finish and then verify your results by walking through step-by-step solutions
Description
The internet security field has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade. Everyday more people around the globe gain access to the internet and not all of them with good intentions. The need for penetration testers has grown now that the security industryhas had time to mature. Simply running a vulnerability scanner is a thing of the past and is no longer an effective method of determining a business's true security posture. Learn effective penetration testing skills so that you can effectively meet and manage the rapidly changing security needs of your company. Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments will teach you how to efficiently and effectively ensure the security posture of environments that have been secured using IDS/IPS, firewalls, network segmentation, hardened system configurations and more. The stages of a penetration test are clearly defined and addressed using step-by-step instructions that you can follow on your own virtual lab.The book follows the standard penetration testing stages from start to finish with step-by-step examples. The book thoroughly covers penetration test expectations, proper scoping and planning, as well as enumeration and footprinting. You'll learn how to clean up and compile proof of concept, exploit code from the web, advanced web application testing techniques, client side attacks, post exploitation strategies, detection avoidance methods, generation of well defined reports and metrics, and setting up a penetration testing virtual lab that mimics a secured environment. The book closes by issuing a challenge to your skills and ability to perform a full penetration test against a fictional corporation; followed by a detailed walk through of the solution.Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments is packed with detailed examples that reinforce enumeration, exploitation, post-exploitation, reporting skills and more.
Who is this book for?
If you are looking for guidance and detailed instructions on how to perform a penetration test from start to finish, are looking to build out your own penetration testing lab, or are looking to improve on your existing penetration testing skills, this book is for you. Although the books attempts to accommodate those that are still new to the penetration testing field, experienced testers should be able to gain knowledge and hands-on experience as well. The book does assume that you have some experience in web application testing and as such the chapter regarding this subject may require you to understand the basic concepts of web security. The reader should also be familiar with basic IT concepts, and commonly used protocols such as TCP/IP.
What you will learn
Detailed step-by-step guidance on managing testing results and writing clearly organized and effective penetration testing reports
Properly scope your penetration test to avoid catastrophe
Understand in detail how the testing process works from start to finish, not just how to use specific tools
Use advanced techniques to bypass security controls and remain hidden while testing
Create a segmented virtual network with several targets, IDS and firewall
Generate testing reports and statistics
Advanced web application testing and exploitation
Perform an efficient, organized, and effective penetration test from start to finish
The Book Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide, make us a tour of each of the phases involved in the Pentesting. Starting from the basics to conducting and reporting the same. If you have some knowledge of offensive computer security and want to deepen your knowledge, this book is for you. Most Pentesting teach basic courses to some extent leaving out field closely related in real life as evasion of network systems.I like in this book is to teach you not to depend on remote labs that will eventually generate considerable expense, with the only requirement a computer update, as it will need to virtualize multiple systems and that the virtual platform you are going to develop will serve you in your future to continue further studies.It is a book I recommend to have in your library studies to further advance your career, the tools to which they refer are open source so they will not have many problems in implementing the virtualization platform and make the recommended practices.
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John BrownJun 04, 2015
5
great information in this book
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A. StudentSep 27, 2012
5
"This book is an excellent walkthrough of how to profitably use the immense toolbox available to the penetration tester. If you've only dipped into a few of the tools that are pre-installed in Back|Track, this book will introduce you to many of the other tools, their capabilities and how they can be used in a penetration testing engagement.However, this is not just a catalog and instruction manual for tools; Allen spends a lot of time talking about the penetration testing process including how to plan for one, consulting with the client to set appropriate scope and expectations and all the other details that set the professional penetration tester apart from the tool-focused amateur.Allen includes an excellent chapter on building a lab to follow along and try out the many techniques illustrated in the book. The book concludes with a challenge chapter that walks through an example penetration test.Most definitely a worthwhile read for technical security professionals and aspiring penetration testers."
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Po Foon KwongOct 04, 2012
5
Eventually, a step-by-step guide on how to perform a penetration testing instead of just another book throwing tons of tools and ask readers to try one by one...Instead of explaining stages of penetration testing and throwing tools for each step, this book uses examples with instructions, guiding readers how to do the job directly - from setting up the virtual lab environment, to which tool to use, and then step-by-step instruction on how to use the tool to do the job. Anybody with just a basic understanding on *nix system will be able to follow the book easily, and eventually have an idea on what the penetration testing is after finishing the book.Definitely it doesn't cover everything, but it actually covers quite a lot of common scenarios - from exploitation of a single machine directly connected, to that of multiple machines of different operating systems behind firewall. The scenarios go a little bit more complex as the author explains different stages of penetration testing. The author did an excellent job in keeping the learning curve low.I highly recommend anybody who want to learn penetration testing to get this book. This is also suitable for those who tried pentesting courses like OSCP but found that the learning curve is too steep and eventually give up. It definitely helps bridging the gap.
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Kindle CustomerDec 23, 2012
5
The book shows a comprehensive base of knowledge for learning the basics of computer/network security. More then this book will be required to fully learn what you MUST know to be considered an expert ,but this book will get you started down the right path.
Lee Allen is the associate director at Ohio State University. He specializes in information security, penetration testing, security research, task automation, risk management, data analysis, and 3D application development.
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