Chapter 10. Hardening Techniques and Countermeasures

Getting into the field of penetration testing and offensive security is always quite exciting; it's fun to learn the art of exploitation on systems and networks. At times, your career path may shift a bit from hacking into a client's network to assisting an organization in securing its network infrastructure from hackers and other potential threats. Over the past few years, so many cyberattacks have been reported every day. Let's not forget about the organizations that have not reported a cyberattack within their local network as they are trying to protect their organizational reputation, and lastly, those who have not yet detected an intrusion on their network.

Quite often, organizations create jobs to hire new people as cybersecurity professionals but the titles and job descriptions are not purely in line with penetration testing, but rather as a security administrator or security engineer. These roles usually consist of the function...