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Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies

You're reading from   Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies Counter modern threats and employ state-of-the-art tools and techniques to protect your organization against cybercriminals

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838827793
Length 634 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dr. Erdal Ozkaya Dr. Erdal Ozkaya
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Yuri Diogenes Yuri Diogenes
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Preface 1. Security Posture 2. Incident Response Process FREE CHAPTER 3. What is a Cyber Strategy? 4. Understanding the Cybersecurity Kill Chain 5. Reconnaissance 6. Compromising the System 7. Chasing a User's Identity 8. Lateral Movement 9. Privilege Escalation 10. Security Policy 11. Network Segmentation 12. Active Sensors 13. Threat Intelligence 14. Investigating an Incident 15. Recovery Process 16. Vulnerability Management 17. Log Analysis 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Web Browser Enumeration Tools

Enumeration can be done through web browser extensions as well. Here are some great examples:

Penetration Testing Kit

This is an extension that can give information on the web sites you are visiting, such as the IP address where the web site is hosted, technologies used to build the web site, and what scripts are running. This tool can also be used when you need to check what happens if you send a SQL injection or XSS attack via the request builder, where you can modify the parameters, execute the request, and check it right in your Chrome browser. Beside that, you can check the OWASP security headers if your web application follows recommendations from OWASP for headers like X-XSS-Protection or X-Content-Type-Options. So, it's not just a web enumeration tool, but, as the name states, also a Pen Testing kit with multiple applications. One use of the Pen Test toolkit is demonstrated in the following Figure 6.

Figure 6: Using Pen Test toolkit...

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