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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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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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Sagar Rahalkar
Sagar Rahalkar is a seasoned information security professional having more than 10 years of comprehensive experience in various verticals of IS. His domain expertise is mainly into breach detection, cyber crime investigations, digital forensics, application security, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, compliance for mandates and regulations, IT GRC, and much more. He holds a masters degree in computer science and several industry-recognized certifications such as Certified Cyber Crime Investigator, Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Security Analyst, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, IBM certified Specialist-Rational AppScan, Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and PRINCE2. He has been closely associated with Indian law enforcement agencies for more than 3 years dealing with digital crime investigations and related training and received several awards and appreciations from senior officials of the police and defense organizations in India. Sagar has also been a reviewer and author for various books and online publications.
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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

Enumeration and Vulnerability Assessment

This chapter is about exploring various tools and techniques for enumerating the targets in scope and performing a vulnerability assessment on them.

The reader will learn how to enumerate target systems using various tools and techniques discussed in this chapter and will learn how to assess vulnerabilities using specialized tools such as OpenVAS.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • What is enumeration
  • Enumerating services
  • Using Nmap scripts
  • Vulnerability assessments using OpenVAS
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Sagar Rahalkar is a seasoned information security professional having more than 10 years of comprehensive experience in various verticals of IS. His domain expertise is mainly into breach detection, cyber crime investigations, digital forensics, application security, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing, compliance for mandates and regulations, IT GRC, and much more. He holds a masters degree in computer science and several industry-recognized certifications such as Certified Cyber Crime Investigator, Certified Ethical Hacker, Certified Security Analyst, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, IBM certified Specialist-Rational AppScan, Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and PRINCE2. He has been closely associated with Indian law enforcement agencies for more than 3 years dealing with digital crime investigations and related training and received several awards and appreciations from senior officials of the police and defense organizations in India. Sagar has also been a reviewer and author for various books and online publications.
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