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Network Vulnerability Assessment

You're reading from   Network Vulnerability Assessment Identify security loopholes in your network's infrastructure

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788627252
Length 254 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Vulnerability Management Governance FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up the Assessment Environment 3. Security Assessment Prerequisites 4. Information Gathering 5. Enumeration and Vulnerability Assessment 6. Gaining Network Access 7. Assessing Web Application Security 8. Privilege Escalation 9. Maintaining Access and Clearing Tracks 10. Vulnerability Scoring 11. Threat Modeling 12. Patching and Security Hardening 13. Vulnerability Reporting and Metrics 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Enumeration and Vulnerability Assessment

This chapter is about exploring various tools and techniques for enumerating the targets in scope and performing a vulnerability assessment on them.

The reader will learn how to enumerate target systems using various tools and techniques discussed in this chapter and will learn how to assess vulnerabilities using specialized tools such as OpenVAS.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • What is enumeration
  • Enumerating services
  • Using Nmap scripts
  • Vulnerability assessments using OpenVAS
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