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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments, Second Edition

You're reading from   Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments, Second Edition Employ the most advanced pentesting techniques and tools to build highly-secured systems and environments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784395810
Length 428 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Kevin Cardwell Kevin Cardwell
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Lee Allen Lee Allen
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Preface 1. Penetration Testing Essentials FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing a Test Environment 3. Assessment Planning 4. Intelligence Gathering 5. Network Service Attacks 6. Exploitation 7. Web Application Attacks 8. Exploitation Concepts 9. Post-Exploitation 10. Stealth Techniques 11. Data Gathering and Reporting 12. Penetration Testing Challenge Index

Exploitation – why bother?

There is a good possibility that your potential clients will not understand the benefits of performing a full penetration test. Simply enumerating the known vulnerabilities in a network environment is not sufficient to truly understand the effectiveness of the corporation's combined security controls; be prepared.

Here is a quick listing of common benefits that full exploitation provides:

  • Takes the guess work and doubt out of the equation: By providing proof that critical infrastructure devices were compromised, and thus confidential data could have been leaked, altered, or made unavailable, the problem becomes "real" and the management team will have the necessary details needed to take steps towards remediation.
  • Validates that mitigating controls actually...mitigate: Rather than blindly accepting that a theoretical mitigating control actually works a full exploitation penetration test enables management to prove the security measures are...
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