Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide (Open Source: Community Experience Distilled)
Lee Allen
Language: English
Pages: 414
ISBN: 1849517746
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
- Learn how to perform an efficient, organized, and effective penetration test from start to finish
- Gain hands-on penetration testing experience by building and testing a virtual lab environment that includes commonly found security measures such as IDS and firewalls
- Take the challenge and perform a virtual penetration test against a fictional corporation from start to finish and then verify your results by walking through step-by-step solutions
- Detailed step-by-step guidance on managing testing results and writing clearly organized and effective penetration testing reports
- Properly scope your penetration test to avoid catastrophe
- Understand in detail how the testing process works from start to finish, not just how to use specific tools
- Use advanced techniques to bypass security controls and remain hidden while testing
- Create a segmented virtual network with several targets, IDS and firewall
- Generate testing reports and statistics
- Perform an efficient, organized, and effective penetration test from start to finish
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Able to compromise a system is due to configuration errors, or poorly designed IT architecture. Note that there is no such thing as a panacea in security. As penetration testers, it is our duty to look at all angles of the problem and make the client aware of anything that allows an attacker to adversely affect their business. Advanced penetration testing goes above and beyond standard penetration testing by taking advantage of the latest security research and exploitation methods available.
Install pfSense we will need to create a new hard disk. We will be using 6 GB for our installation. This setting can be as low as 2 GB and still be effective, but you will be limited in expanding the features that pfSense provides. Click on Next after selecting the Create new hard disk radial option. Select VDI (Virtual Disk Image) and click on Next. Choose: Dynamically allocated for the virtual disk file and click on Next. If disk space is not tight on your machine chose at least 6 GB. This.
Simple fuzzer known as SFUZZ created by Aaron Conole is a great tool if you want to start taking the fuzzing business seriously. SFUZZ is powerful and useful to someone who is not ready to expend the time needed to properly learn how to fully use SPIKE. Also, there are times when using a smaller, simpler tool is just more efficient. If you are still learning about exploit development then SFUZZ makes a great stepping stone and will definitely continue to be a valuable addition to your.
At traffic patterns Network sniffing can be a huge time saver. It is more difficult to use remote Windows machines to perform this task for you as the network card needs to be in promiscuous mode, but it can be done. Ideally, you will find a Unix or Linux host that can be turned into a listening station with little to no effort. Here we look at a compromised Linux host on the 192.168.101.0/24 subnet. Our attacking machine resides on 192.168.75.0/24 and cannot see the same traffic that the.
Facts or configuration settings that do not relate. Throughout this book each section attempted to use the minimum system setup required to review the task at hand. This option should not be taken lightly when building out your labs. No-nonsense test example Many of the examples of new exploits and vulnerabilities can be tested with a simple configuration such as: This network is about as simple as it gets (besides simply testing from the target machine itself which could definitely.