Mounting the environment
A successful penetration test largely depends on how well your work environment and labs are configured. Moreover, a successful test answers the following set of questions:
- How well is your test lab configured?
- Are all the necessary tools for testing available? How good is your hardware to support such tools?
Before we start testing anything, we must make sure that all of the required sets of tools are available and updated.
Let's go ahead and set up Metasploit in a virtual environment.
Setting up Metasploit in a virtual environment
Before using Metasploit, we need to have a test lab. The best idea for setting up a test lab is to gather different machines and install different OSes on them. However, if we only have a single device, the best idea is to set up a virtual environment.
Virtualization plays an essential role in penetration testing today. Due to the high cost of hardware, virtualization plays a cost-effective role in...
