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Network Vulnerability Assessment

You're reading from   Network Vulnerability Assessment Identify security loopholes in your network's infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788627252
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Vulnerability Management Governance FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up the Assessment Environment 3. Security Assessment Prerequisites 4. Information Gathering 5. Enumeration and Vulnerability Assessment 6. Gaining Network Access 7. Assessing Web Application Security 8. Privilege Escalation 9. Maintaining Access and Clearing Tracks 10. Vulnerability Scoring 11. Threat Modeling 12. Patching and Security Hardening 13. Vulnerability Reporting and Metrics 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Gaining remote access

So far in this book, we have seen various techniques and tools that could be used to gather information about the target and enumerate services running on the system. We also glanced at the vulnerability assessment process using OpenVAS. Having followed these phases, we should now have sufficient information about our target in order to actually compromise the system and gain access.

Gaining access to a remote system can be achieved in either of the two possible ways as follows:

  • Direct access
  • Target behind the router

Direct access

In this type, the attacker has direct access to the target system. The attacker essentially knows the IP address of the target system and connects to it remotely. The attacker...

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