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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing
Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing: Defend your systems from methodized and proficient attackers

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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Introduction to Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Security is a critical concern for enterprises and organizations of all sizes, in all industries. Information security is a set of processes, tools, policies, and systems implemented to protect against internal and external threats that can damage or disrupt information assets. This book is hands-on and designed to take you through real-world techniques so that you can gain the required and highly demanded skills that will enable you to step into a new level of penetration testing career. Every chapter is designed, not only for you to learn the methodologies, tools, and techniques to simulate hacking attacks, but also so that you will also come away with a new mindset. In this chapter, you will be introduced to the latest penetration testing strategies and techniques. It will take you through every required step in detail to carry out efficient penetration testing and furthermore, to be able to evaluate a pentesting report, based on industry-accepted metrics. Once you have completed the chapter, you will have the skills to deliver a high-standard and well-documented penetration testing report, after practicing the techniques to gather information on any target, even in the deep web, and move beyond automated tools.

Information security overview

Before diving into penetration testing, let's start by discovering some important terminology in information security. The core principles of information security are confidentiality, availability, and integrity. These principles institute what we call the CIA triad.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality asserts that all the information and data are accessible only by persons who are authorized to have access. It is important to make sure that the information won't be disclosed by unauthorized parties. The theft of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) is an example of a confidentiality attack.

Integrity

The aim of integrity is to protect information against unauthorized modification; in other words, the trustworthiness of data. This means that data has to be consistent, accurate, and trustworthy during every single information process. Some protection methods must be in place and available to detect any changes in data.

Availability

Availability seeks to ensure that the information is available by authorized users when it is needed. Denial of Service (DoS) is an example of an availability attack. High-availability clusters and backup copies are some of the mitigation systems used against availability attacks.

There are many information security definitions currently available. The previous definition is based on the ISO/IEC 27001 information security management standard.

Least privilege and need to know

Least privilege and need to know describes the fact that authorized users should be granted the minimum amount of access and authorization during their jobs. Need to know means that the user must have a legitimate reason to access information.

Defense in depth

Defense in depth, or layered security, is a security approach using multilayer security lines, and controls an example of a defense in depth approach using multiple firewalls from different vendors to improve the security of the systems.

Risk analysis

The main role of an information security professional is to evaluate risks against enterprise assets (resources that need protection) and implement security controls to defend against those risks. Analyzing risks is a very important skill because good judgment will make us select the best security controls and protection mechanisms, including the amount of financial resources needed for the deployment of these safeguards. In other words, a bad decision will cost the enterprise a huge amount of money and even worse, the loss of customers' data. We can't calculate the risk in a quantitative way without knowing the threats and vulnerabilities. A threat is a potential danger to our assets that could harm the systems. A vulnerability is a weakness that allows the threat to take negative actions. These two terms and the connection between them is described by the formula Risk = Threat*Vulnerability.

To evaluate the threat and the vulnerability, you need to assign a number in a range of one to five, for example. Using another range is possible. Sometimes, we can add another factor named impact, which describes the impact of the damage caused. In other cases, it is expressed as an amount of money to describe the cost of that impact, so the formula could be expressed as Risk = Threat*Vulnerability*Impact.

To perform a qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, we may use the risk analysis matrix according to the Australia/New Zealand 4360 Standard (AS/NZS 4360) on risk management.

The information security professional needs to classify risks based on two metrics: the frequency of occurrence and the severity of accident. The results of this classification will dictate the next action plan. Thus, if the risks are high, they must notify senior management. The next step is to create a roadmap to downgrade every risk to low, as much as possible, as shown here:

Information Assurance

Information Assurance (IA) refers to the assurance of the confidentiality, the integrity, and the availability of information and making sure that all the systems are protected during different phases of information processing. Policies, guidelines, identifying resource requirements, identifying vulnerabilities, and training are forms of information assurance.

Information security management program

The main aim of the information security management program is to make sure that the business operates in a reduced risk environment. This means coworking happens between organizational and operational parties during the whole process. The Information Security Management Framework (ISMF) is an example of a business-driven framework (policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines) that helps an information security professional establish a good level of security.

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  • • Advanced exploitation techniques to breach modern operating systems and complex network devices
  • • Learn about Docker breakouts, Active Directory delegation, and CRON jobs
  • • Practical use cases to deliver an intelligent endpoint-protected system

Description

It has always been difficult to gain hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of advanced penetration testing techniques and vulnerability assessment and management. This book will be your one-stop solution to compromising complex network devices and modern operating systems. This book provides you with advanced penetration testing techniques that will help you exploit databases, web and application servers, switches or routers, Docker, VLAN, VoIP, and VPN. With this book, you will explore exploitation abilities such as offensive PowerShell tools and techniques, CI servers, database exploitation, Active Directory delegation, kernel exploits, cron jobs, VLAN hopping, and Docker breakouts. Moving on, this book will not only walk you through managing vulnerabilities, but will also teach you how to ensure endpoint protection. Toward the end of this book, you will also discover post-exploitation tips, tools, and methodologies to help your organization build an intelligent security system. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills and methodologies needed to breach infrastructures and provide complete endpoint protection for your system.

Who is this book for?

If you are a system administrator, SOC analyst, penetration tester, or a network engineer and want to take your penetration testing skills and security knowledge to the next level, then this book is for you. Some prior experience with penetration testing tools and knowledge of Linux and Windows command-line syntax is beneficial.

What you will learn

  • • Exposure to advanced infrastructure penetration testing techniques and methodologies
  • • Gain hands-on experience of penetration testing in Linux system vulnerabilities and memory exploitation
  • • Understand what it takes to break into enterprise networks
  • • Learn to secure the configuration management environment and continuous delivery pipeline
  • • Gain an understanding of how to exploit networks and IoT devices
  • • Discover real-world, post-exploitation techniques and countermeasures

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Table of Contents

13 Chapters
Introduction to Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advanced Linux Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Corporate Network and Database Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Active Directory Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Docker Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploiting Git and Continuous Integration Servers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Metasploit and PowerShell for Post-Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
VLAN Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
VoIP Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Insecure VPN Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Routing and Router Vulnerabilities Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Internet of Things Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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It is excellent and a must read
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Houssem Dellai Mar 25, 2018
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Even I have no idea about anything security, it was easy for me to understand the core concepts. I would recommend it :)
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After scouring numerous resources, taking online and instructor-led training, and speaking to hundreds of professional penetration testers, this has been the only resource that properly covers Active Directory Exploitation.There are books, such as Becoming the Hacker (best for web app penetration testing), that I would recommend to build on the foundation this book sets for some of the other topics. I might also compare this to Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Third Edition (best for physical penetration testing). However, this book is unique in a few key ways.1) This book mentions PowerView, an essential suite for Windows Server Domain security testing. Unlike the other books that do mention PowerView, this book goes into detail about the intrinsics and internals.2) The book levers a technique that we've seen elsewhere, SPN Scanning, but simplifies it and consolidates the data gathering element in a simple command-by reference. It introduced SPN Scanning earlier than other publications and trainings. SPN Scanning is key to remaining under the radar yet able to pivot rapidly and cleanly.3) Although it could already use a refresh, the section on Continuous Integration penetration testing was prescient. No other books cover this so prominently, yet they should.Overall, besides the 2 books I mentioned that compete with this title, it's one of the best books on Infrastructure Penetration Testing and the current best publication on penetrating Active Directory / Windows Server technologies. I would definitely recommend all 3, especially in combination.
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Nakul Aug 21, 2018
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The book does not cover the details of anything in detail. Its only good if you don't know if that could happen .I won't recommend it to anyone . Waste of money .....
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This is one of the most horrible books that I have ever read. Even class-text books that teach kids basic computer security have better information than this. The author seems to have no idea of what he is talking about. Every chapter goes into very high level about every topic including the topics of exploitation which is what this book intends to sell. I was really excited when I first looked at the table of contents in the book as it seemed promising covering topics like Docker exploitation, VPN exploitation, etc. However if you read any of these chapters you will soon realize that chapters dont even cover the basics of these technologies correctly. I usually dont like to be such harsh critic, but honestly the book is not even worth 1 dollar in my opinion. Its a combination of everything that we can find for free and still better arranged and explained else where on the Internet. Overall it was extremely disappointing
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