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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288744
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Beltrame Jason Beltrame
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Preparation 2. Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server 4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit 5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password-based Attacks 7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure 8. Web Application Attacks 9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out 10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Infrastructure and design weaknesses

Many understand how infrastructure is important to a solid and secure network, but they overlook that fact that infrastructure is important to web applications as well. A poorly designed infrastructure can also lead to security issues within the web application. For example, if you have a webserver and database server on the exact same network, then a compromised webserver would most likely lead to a compromised database server.

Just like infrastructure design, the actual design of the web application is key to a successful and secure web application. Therefore, as a penetration tester, you will want to make sure the web application is secure and doesn't have any design flaws that may lead to secure incidents.

Using the following tools, I will examine my web application for any infrastructure or design weaknesses.

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