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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

You're reading from Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks Build your own secure enterprise or home penetration testing lab to dig into the various hacking techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785283154

Length 264 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (3):

Andrey Popov

Aaron Woody

Vyacheslav Fadyushin

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Understanding Wireless Network Security and Risks

2. Planning Your Lab Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Configuring Networking Lab Components

4. Designing Application Lab Components

5. Implementing Security

6. Exploring Hacking Toolkits

7. Preparing a Wireless Penetration Testing Platform

8. What's Next?

Index

Configuring hardware wired devices

So, that is enough theory. Now let's proceed with some practice and finally configure the network devices.

We will configure our routers and switches via console ports using a special console cable, which in our case has a RJ-45 connector at one end and a DB-9 connector at the other end. You are unlikely to find DB-9 ports on contemporary computers, thus we need to have a DB-9-USB adapter cable to be able to connect it to a USB port. You can see an example of such a cable and an adapter in the following images from the Cisco website:

The Cisco console cable

The DB-9 to USB adapter

Tip

You might need to install special drivers for using an adapter, so please check your adapter's user manual.

Alternatively, you can get a console cable with both RJ-45 and USB connectors, for example, on eBay (http://www.ebay.com/):

The RJ-45 to USB console cable

We will also need a terminal software to be able to communicate with devices via console ports. On Linux or MAC OS X, you...

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Authors (3)

Fadyushin

Fadyushin

Vyacheslav Fadyushin (CISA, CEH, PCI ASV) is a security consultant and a penetration tester with more than 9 years of professional experience and a diverse background in various aspects of information security. His main points of interest and fields of expertise are ethical hacking and penetration testing, infrastructure and application security, mobile security, and information security management. He is also an author of the book, Penetration Testing: Setting Up a Test Lab How-to, published by Packt Publishing in 2013.

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Aaron Woody

Aaron Woody

Aaron Woody is an expert in information security with over 15 years of experience across several industry verticals. His experience includes securing some of the largest enterprises in the world. Currently, he is a Security Consultant in the public sector. He is also a speaker and active instructor teaching hacking and forensics, and maintains a blog n00bpentesting.com. Aaron can also be followed on twitter at @shai_saint. He will be launching a companion website (http://www.datacentricsec.com) for this book. To contact him for consulting please e-mail him at aaron.m.woody@gmail.com.

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Popov

Popov

Andrey Popov is a security consultant and penetration tester with rich professional experience and a diverse background in infrastructure and application security, information security management, and ethical hacking. He has been working for a market-leading company along with another security professional since 2007.

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