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Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Achieve the gold standard in penetration testing with Kali using this masterpiece, now in its third edition!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888427
Length 572 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Tedi Heriyanto Tedi Heriyanto
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Gerard Johansen Gerard Johansen
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Gerard Johansen
Lee Allen Lee Allen
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Shakeel Ali Shakeel Ali
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Beginning with Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Penetration Testing Methodology 3. Target Scoping 4. Information Gathering 5. Target Discovery 6. Enumerating Target 7. Vulnerability Mapping 8. Social Engineering 9. Target Exploitation 10. Privilege Escalation 11. Maintaining Access 12. Wireless Penetration Testing 13. Kali Nethunter 14. Documentation and Reporting A. Supplementary Tools B. Key Resources Index

Chapter 6. Enumerating Target

Enumerating target is a process that is used to find and collect information about ports, operating systems, and services available on the target machines. This process is usually done after we have discovered that the target machines are available. In penetration testing practice, this task is conducted at the time of the discovery process.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics related to the target enumeration process:

  • A brief background description of port scanning and various port scanning types supported by the port scanning tools
  • The tools that can be used to carry out network scanning tasks
  • The tools that can be used to do SMB enumeration on the Windows environment
  • The tools that can be used to do SNMP enumeration
  • The tool that can be used to enumerate the IPsec VPN server

The goal of performing the enumeration process is to collect information about the services available on the target systems. Later on, we will use this information...

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