About the Reviewer
by Kevin Cardwell, Lee Allen
Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments - Second Edition
- Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewer
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Penetration Testing Essentials
- 2. Preparing a Test Environment
- 3. Assessment Planning
- 4. Intelligence Gathering
- 5. Network Service Attacks
- Configuring and testing our lab clients
- Angry IP Scanner
- Nmap – getting to know you
- SNMP – a goldmine of information just waiting to be discovered
- Network baselines with scanPBNJ
- Enumeration avoidance techniques
- Reader challenge
- Summary
- 6. Exploitation
- Exploitation – why bother?
- Manual exploitation
- Getting files to and from victim machines
- Passwords – something you know…
- Metasploit – learn it and love it
- Reader challenge
- Summary
- 7. Web Application Attacks
- 8. Exploitation Concepts
- 9. Post-Exploitation
- Rules of Engagement
- Data gathering, network analysis, and pillaging
- Linux
- Putting this information to use
- Enumeration
- Exploitation
- We are connected, now what?
- Which tools are available on the remote system?
- Finding network information
- Determine connections
- Checking installed packages
- Package repositories
- Programs and services that run at startup
- Searching for information
- History files and logs
- Configurations, settings, and other files
- Users and credentials
- Moving the files
- Microsoft Windows™ post-exploitation
- Pivoting
- Reader challenge
- Summary
- 10. Stealth Techniques
- 11. Data Gathering and Reporting
- 12. Penetration Testing Challenge
- Index
S Boominathan is a highly professional security expert with 4 plus years of experience in the field of information security, malware analysis, vulnerability assessment, and network and wireless pentesting. He is currently working with a bellwether of an Indian-based MNC company and is privileged to be doing so. He possesses certifications and knowledge in N+, CCNA, CCSA, CEHV8, CHFIV4, QCP (QualysGuard certified professional), and wireless pentesting expert.
I would like to thank my parents, Sundaram and Valli, my wife, Uthira, and my brother, Sriram, for helping throughout this book. I would like to thank the author and Packt Publishing for providing me with the opportunity to review this book.
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