Best Practices for the Real World

Your journey as an aspiring ethical hacker and penetration tester is only just beginning. You have gained some amazing hands-on skills throughout the previous chapters of this book and have learned various techniques while developing the mindset of a penetration tester. Furthermore, you have learned how to use the most popular penetration testing Linux distribution, Kali Linux, to simulate various real-world cyber-attacks to discover and exploit various security vulnerabilities on systems and networks.

While you have learned a lot, there are a few guidelines and tips I would like to share with you before concluding this book. During the course of this chapter, you will learn about various guidelines that should be followed by all penetration testers, the importance of creating a checklist for penetration testing, some cool hacker gadgets, how to set up remote access to securely access your penetration tester’s machine over the internet...