Knowing your enemy's best friend – Metasploit

Let's start by clarifying that Metasploit is a great framework that, like any other tool, can be used for good or bad. In fact, chances are that your company will receive at least one attack coming from this tool, but the good news is that you can leverage this same framework to test your infrastructure by using offensive security techniques with Metasploit.

But wait, wasn't this book about defensive security? Yes, but as a master in defensive security, you also need to understand how to leverage some offensive security techniques to keep your infrastructure safe.

Metasploit

If you have been around the cybersecurity area, then you will have at least heard about Metasploit, but what exactly is Metasploit?

Metasploit is an open source framework developed in collaboration between the open source community and Rapid7.

One of the great features of Metasploit is its functionality with modules that enables...