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

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Paperback Mar 2016 428 pages 2nd Edition

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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments, Second Edition

Chapter 2. Preparing a Test Environment

In this chapter, we will discuss the test environment and how we will select the chosen platform. We will discuss the following:

Introduction to the VMware Workstation
Explanation of the reasoning behind selecting the platform
Reviewing and implementing the design of the network
Developing the structure to support the course and putting everything together

In the first edition of the book, the process was to develop the range in each chapter of the book. In this second edition, the process is to develop the range, at least at the network architecture level, to support the different exercises throughout the book. We will still revisit the design, but the intent is to get the layers of defense to meet the needs of the network designs throughout the book.

Creating the switches

We know that we have three switches that were created when we carried out the installation. This will allow us to create a number of different architectures, but we still need more switches for our design. The system has assigned our IP addresses for the VMnet1 and VMnet8 switches, respectively. We want to customize the switches to meet the IP addresses that we will use throughout the book. We have four subnets that we use throughout the book, and we will configure them now. This does not include the last chapter, and we will customize four switches just for that. In your VMware Workstation, click on Edit | Virtual Network Editor. This will bring up the network configuration window, and we want to configure the following:

Name	Subnet Address
VMnet1	`192.168.50`
VMnet2	`192.168.25`
VMnet3	`192.168.101`
VMnet4	`192.168.10`
VMnet5	`192.168.20`
VMnet6	`192.168.30`
VMnet7	`192.168.40`
VMnet8	`192.168.75`

This will provide us with the four subnets for the...

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Learn how to build your own pentesting lab environment to practice advanced techniques
Customize your own scripts, and learn methods to exploit 32-bit and 64-bit programs
Explore a vast variety of stealth techniques to bypass a number of protections when penetration testing

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The defences continue to improve and become more and more common, but this book will provide you with a number or proven techniques to defeat the latest defences on the networks. The methods and techniques contained will provide you with a powerful arsenal of best practices to increase your penetration testing successes. The processes and methodology will provide you techniques that will enable you to be successful, and the step by step instructions of information gathering and intelligence will allow you to gather the required information on the targets you are testing. The exploitation and post-exploitation sections will supply you with the tools you would need to go as far as the scope of work will allow you. The challenges at the end of each chapter are designed to challenge you and provide real-world situations that will hone and perfect your penetration testing skills. You will start with a review of several well respected penetration testing methodologies, and following this you will learn a step-by-step methodology of professional security testing, including stealth, methods of evasion, and obfuscation to perform your tests and not be detected! The final challenge will allow you to create your own complex layered architecture with defences and protections in place, and provide the ultimate testing range for you to practice the methods shown throughout the book. The challenge is as close to an actual penetration test assignment as you can get!

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone who wants to improve their skills in penetration testing. As it follows a step-by-step approach, anyone from a novice to an experienced security tester can learn effective techniques to deal with highly secured environments. Whether you are brand new or a seasoned expert, this book will provide you with the skills you need to successfully create, customize, and plan an advanced penetration test.

What you will learn

A step-by-step methodology to identify and penetrate secured environments
Get to know the process to test network services across enterprise architecture when defences are in place
Grasp different web application testing methods and how to identify web application protections that are deployed
Understand a variety of concepts to exploit software
Gain proven post-exploitation techniques to exfiltrate data from the target
Get to grips with various stealth techniques to remain undetected and defeat the latest defences
Be the first to find out the latest methods to bypass firewalls
Follow proven approaches to record and save the data from tests for analysis

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Randal T. Rioux Jul 07, 2016

This is the first book I've ever returned after buying and reading.It does not cover "Advanced Penetration Testing," nor does it deal in any way with "Highly-Secured Environments." It is an introduction to the business side of security testing, including permission, scope and contracts (rules of engagement). Most of the text is an explanation of how to setup VMware, pfSense, Kali, Ubuntu and other host systems used in test scenarios.The only "penetration testing" covered is through the use of popular scanning and exploitation tools such as Metasploit and nmap, both of which are given far greater detail in other publications.It felt like this book was written as a beginner's guide to getting into the field of penetration testing, but was given a new title at the last minute. For about $60, I found this book to be a completely overpriced collection of common knowledge.

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

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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments, Second Edition

Chapter 2. Preparing a Test Environment

Introducing VMware Workstation

Why VMware Workstation?

Installing VMware Workstation

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Network design

VMnet0

Understanding the default architecture

Installing Kali Linux

Creating the switches

Introducing VMware Workstation

Why VMware Workstation?

Installing VMware Workstation

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