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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

You're reading from   Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester Build your defense against complex attacks

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Product type Course
Published in Dec 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788624596
Length 860 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nipun Jaswal Nipun Jaswal
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (35) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
Preface
1. Module 1 FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools 3. Setting up Your Environment 4. Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 5. Information Gathering with Metasploit 6. Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 7. Client-side Attacks with Metasploit 8. Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 9. Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 10. Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 11. Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 12. Module 2 13. Approaching a Penetration Test Using Metasploit 14. Reinventing Metasploit 15. The Exploit Formulation Process 16. Porting Exploits 17. Testing Services with Metasploit 18. Virtual Test Grounds and Staging 19. Client-side Exploitation 20. Metasploit Extended 21. Speeding up Penetration Testing 22. Visualizing with Armitage 23. Module 3 24. Getting Started with Metasploit 25. Identifying and Scanning Targets 26. Exploitation and Gaining Access 27. Post-Exploitation with Metasploit 28. Testing Services with Metasploit 29. Fast-Paced Exploitation with Metasploit 30. Exploiting Real-World Challenges with Metasploit 31. Bibliography
32. Thanks page

The fundamentals of SCADA


Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is required to control activities in dams, power stations, oil refineries, large server control services, and so on.

SCADA systems are built for highly specific tasks, such as controlling the level of dispatched water, controlling the gas lines, controlling the electricity power grid to control power in a particular city, and various other operations.

The fundamentals of ICS and its components

SCADA systems are Industrial Control System (ICS) systems, which are used in critical environments or where life is at stake, if anything goes wrong. ICS are the systems that are used in large industries, where they are responsible for controlling various processes, such as mixing two chemicals in a definite ratio, inserting carbon dioxide in a particular environment, putting the proper amount of water in the boiler, and so on.

The components of such SCADA systems are as follows:

Component

Use

Remote Terminal Unit (RTU)

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