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Learn Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Learn Penetration Testing Understand the art of penetration testing and develop your white hat hacker skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838640163
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rishalin Pillay Rishalin Pillay
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Rishalin Pillay is an Offensive Cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the Cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to Red Teaming and as the author of Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made towards the Cybersecurity Industry, including the Events Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.
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Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Penetration Testing 3. Getting Started with Kali Linux 4. Section 2: Exploitation
5. Performing Information Gathering 6. Mastering Social Engineering 7. Diving into the Metasploit Framework 8. Understanding Password Attacks 9. Working with Burp Suite 10. Attacking Web Applications 11. Getting Started with Wireless Attacks 12. Section 3: Post Exploitation
13. Moving Laterally and Escalating Your Privileges 14. Antivirus Evasion 15. Maintaining Control within the Environment 16. Section 4: Putting It All Together
17. Reporting and Acting on Your Findings 18. Where Do I Go from Here? 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

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  1. What is the purpose of penetration testing?
  2. Name at least two penetration testing standards.
  3. Why is it important to scope a penetration test?
  4. Name at least two threat modeling methodologies.
  5. Why is Metasploitable different from other vulnerable machines?
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Rishalin Pillay is an Offensive Cybersecurity expert who holds a number of awards and certifications from multiple companies in the Cybersecurity industry. He is well known for his contributions to online learning courses related to Red Teaming and as the author of Learn Penetration Testing. He holds Content Publisher Gold and Platinum awards for his contributions made towards the Cybersecurity Industry, including the Events Speaker Gold award for influential public speaking at Tier-1 business events.
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