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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

Planning lab security

After defining the lab topology and choosing the lab components, it is time to have a closer look at the security. Obviously, we do not want to become somebody's victim due to the fact that we intentionally leave a lot of vulnerabilities in a lab environment.

At the same time, practicing security evasion techniques is definitely important for penetration testers and security specialists, especially for developing their skills to the advanced level.

According to our general security requirements and the purpose of building a lab, we are going to configure maximal security at the entry points to our lab network: at the gateway and at the trusted WLAN.

Further, we want to define the lab security requirements in detail and group them by areas.

Access control

Access control is a powerful measure that allows us to enforce security if it is designed and configured properly. At the same time, it increases network complexity making attacks more sophisticated and providing the...

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