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Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

You're reading from   Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks Build your own secure enterprise or home penetration testing lab to dig into the various hacking techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
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ISBN-13 9781785283154
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrey Popov Andrey Popov
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Aaron Woody Aaron Woody
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Vyacheslav Fadyushin Vyacheslav Fadyushin
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Preface 1. Understanding Wireless Network Security and Risks 2. Planning Your Lab Environment FREE CHAPTER 3. Configuring Networking Lab Components 4. Designing Application Lab Components 5. Implementing Security 6. Exploring Hacking Toolkits 7. Preparing a Wireless Penetration Testing Platform 8. What's Next? Index

Common variants of the pentesting platform


Preparing a penetration testing platform is not a complicated topic, but it should be properly considered in order to produce good results for your work. Normally, such a platform is based on a laptop, but not necessarily a specially prepared laptop. We consider three main options to prepare a pentesting platform and you can choose whichever you like:

  • Installing Linux and all necessary tools (or just a prepared pentesting distribution) as the main or second operating system on a laptop's hard drive

  • Preparing a virtual machine with all necessary tools installed

  • Preparing a bootable USB stick with a special penetration testing Linux distribution

Note

When we talk about a Wi-Fi penetration testing machine, we always assume Linux OS by default. It does not mean that Windows or Mac OS cannot be used for that purpose. In our opinion, Linux is the most convenient OS for Wi-Fi penetration testing because it allows you to work with hardware interfaces on a low...

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