Summary

Throughout this chapter, we focused on speeding up penetration testing with automated approaches. We looked at various techniques to speed up the testing of databases, speeding up exploitation with db_autopwn. We also looked at quick and speedy client-side attacks too. However, we also re-enabled the lost features of Metasploit, conducting a sure shot client-side attack, decreasing the testing time using automated tools such as WebSploit, fixing up various broken functionalities in Websploit and Fast Track in the SET.

In the next chapter, we will develop approaches to penetration testing with the most popular GUI tool for Metasploit, that is, Armitage. We will also look at the basics of the Cortana scripting and various other interesting attack vectors that we can conduct with Armitage.