What this book covers

Chapter 1, Networking Primer, focuses on networking concepts. It will help you understand why it is key to understand networking and concepts such as ARP, DNS, and DHCP.

Chapter 2, Capturing and Analyzing Network Traffic, helps you to perform a practical analysis of network traffic. It will teach you how to capture traffic, analyze it, and even spoof it if needed. It will also introduce additional hacking tools that are used for this purpose.

Chapter 3, A Cryptography Primer, introduces you to cryptography. It will cover a number of cryptography standards and help you to understand the difference between encryption algorithms, hashing algorithms, and the commonly used cryptography standards in use today.

Chapter 4, Reconnaissance, covers reconnaissance techniques. It will cover passive and active information gathering, as well as the various tools used for these techniques. In addition to on-prem reconnaissance, this chapter will cover reconnaisance leveraging cloud technology.

Chapter 5, Scanning, focuses on the various types of scanning that can be performed in relation to an ethical hack. It will take you on a journey through various techniques involving common hacking tools that are used within Kali Linux and web-based tools.

Chapter 6, Gaining Access, helps you gain initial access to an environment. It will start to get you thinking about how to pivot and escalate your privileges as you focus on obtaining more privileged access.

Chapter 7, Post-Exploitation, focuses on how the ethical hacker can maintain access in the system. It will explain how to pivot, how to escalate privileges, and how to install various backdoors so that the system can be returned to.