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Learn Penetration Testing: Understand the art of penetration testing and develop your white hat hacker skills

Rishalin Pillay

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4.7 (3 Ratings)

Paperback May 2019 424 pages 1st Edition

Rishalin Pillay

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4.7 (3 Ratings)

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Key benefits

Enhance your penetration testing skills to tackle security threats
Learn to gather information, find vulnerabilities, and exploit enterprise defenses
Navigate secured systems with the most up-to-date version of Kali Linux (2019.1) and Metasploit (5.0.0)

Description

Sending information via the internet is not entirely private, as evidenced by the rise in hacking, malware attacks, and security threats. With the help of this book, you'll learn crucial penetration testing techniques to help you evaluate enterprise defenses. You'll start by understanding each stage of pentesting and deploying target virtual machines, including Linux and Windows. Next, the book will guide you through performing intermediate penetration testing in a controlled environment. With the help of practical use cases, you'll also be able to implement your learning in real-world scenarios. By studying everything from setting up your lab, information gathering and password attacks, through to social engineering and post exploitation, you'll be able to successfully overcome security threats. The book will even help you leverage the best tools, such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, Burp Suite, and other open source pentesting tools to perform these techniques. Toward the later chapters, you'll focus on best practices to quickly resolve security threats. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with various penetration testing techniques so as to be able to tackle security threats effectively

Who is this book for?

If you’re just getting started with penetration testing and want to explore various security domains, this book is for you. Security professionals, network engineers, and amateur ethical hackers will also find this book useful. Prior knowledge of penetration testing and ethical hacking is not necessary.

What you will learn

Perform entry-level penetration tests by learning various concepts and techniques
Understand both common and not-so-common vulnerabilities from an attacker s perspective
Get familiar with intermediate attack methods that can be used in real-world scenarios
Understand how vulnerabilities are created by developers and how to fix some of them at source code level
Become well versed with basic tools for ethical hacking purposes
Exploit known vulnerable services with tools such as Metasploit

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Product Details

Publication date : May 31, 2019

Length: 424 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781838640163

Vendor :

Offensive Security

Category :

Security

Concepts :

Penetration Testing

Tools :

Kali Linux

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20 Chapters

Section 1: The Basics

Introduction to Penetration Testing

Technical requirements

What is penetration testing?

Stages of a penetration test

Getting started with your lab

Creating virtual machines in VMware, Hyper-V, and VirtualBox

Summary

Questions

Getting Started with Kali Linux

Technical requirements

An introduction to Kali Linux

Installing and configuring Kali Linux

Basic commands in Kali Linux

Scripting in Kali Linux

The essential tools of Kali Linux

Summary

Questions

Section 2: Exploitation

Performing Information Gathering

Technical requirements

Passive information gathering

Active information gathering

Vulnerability scanning

Capturing traffic

Summary

Questions

Mastering Social Engineering

Technical requirements

What is social engineering?

Social engineering tools

Creating a social engineering campaign

Summary

Questions

Diving into the Metasploit Framework

Technical requirements

Introducing Metasploit

Finding modules

Adding modules

Metasploit options, shells, and payloads

Working with MSFvenom

Summary

Questions

Understanding Password Attacks

Technical requirements

Introduction to password attacks

Working with wordlists

Offline password attacks

Online password attacks

Dumping passwords from memory

Summary

Questions

Working with Burp Suite

Technical requirements

Understanding Burp Suite

Preparing your environment

Exploring and configuring Burp Suite components

Summary

Questions

Attacking Web Applications

Technical requirements

Preparing your environment

Types of web application security testing

The components of a web application

Understanding the HTTP protocol

Common web application attacks

Attacking web applications

Summary

Questions

Getting Started with Wireless Attacks

Technical requirements

Exploring wireless attacks

Compatible hardware

Wireless attack tools

Cracking WEP, WPA, and WPA2

Summary

Questions

Section 3: Post Exploitation

Moving Laterally and Escalating Your Privileges

Technical requirements

Discovering post-exploitation techniques

Preparing your environment

Performing post-exploitation attacks

Summary

Questions

Antivirus Evasion

Technical requirements

The evolution of antivirus technologies

Concepts of antivirus evasion

Getting started with antivirus evasion

Testing evasion techniques

Summary

Questions

Maintaining Control within the Environment

Technical requirements

The importance of maintaining access

Techniques used to maintain access

Using tools for persistence

Summary

Questions

Section 4: Putting It All Together

Reporting and Acting on Your Findings

Technical requirements

The importance of a penetration testing report

What goes into a penetration test report?

Tools for report writing

Recommending remediation options

Summary

Questions

Where Do I Go from Here?

Technical requirements

Knowledge maintenance

Toolkit maintenance

Purposefully vulnerable resources

Summary

Assessments

Chapter 1: Introduction to Penetration Testing

Chapter 2: Getting Started with Kali Linux

Chapter 3: Performing Information Gathering

Chapter 4: Mastering Social Engineering

Chapter 5: Diving into the Metasploit Framework

Chapter 6: Understanding Password Attacks

Chapter 7: Working with Burp Suite

Chapter 8: Attacking Web Applications

Chapter 9: Getting Started with Wireless Attacks

Chapter 10: Moving Laterally and Escalating your Privileges

Chapter 11: Antivirus Evasion

Chapter 12: Maintaining Control within the Environment

Chapter 13: Reporting and Acting on Your Findings

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Cocogirl Sep 11, 2023

An excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about ethical hacking and penetration testing.Overall a valuable resource for aspiring ethical hackers and cybersecurity enthusiasts. It equips readers with the knowledge and skills needed to understand vulnerabilities, assess risks, and secure systems effectively. Whether you're pursuing a career in cybersecurity or simply looking to enhance your knowledge of ethical hacking, this book is an excellent choice.

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Sash Sep 12, 2019

The author explains techniques in simple-to-understand concepts while backing them up with great examples. Fantastic resource for those looking to step into penetration testing or understand how adversaries think and act. The format makes the book easy to read, and the logical order of the book makes it a great reference material.

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Warren Aug 29, 2019

This book is an excellent resource for getting into this challenging topic. I particularly enjoy the way the author explains complex concepts in a simple and methodical way which makes them easy to follow despite me not having a Cyber Security background. I found this book to be a great starting point for getting into the world of penetraion testing.

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About the author

Rishalin Pillay

Rishalin Pillay is an Offensive Cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the Cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to Red Teaming and as the author of Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made towards the Cybersecurity Industry, including the Events Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.

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