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Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners

You're reading from   Metasploit 5.0 for Beginners Perform penetration testing to secure your IT environment against threats and vulnerabilities

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Published in Apr 2020
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ISBN-13 9781838982669
Length 246 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Sagar Rahalkar Sagar Rahalkar
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction and Environment Setup
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Environment 4. Chapter 3: Metasploit Components and Environment Configuration 5. Section 2: Practical Metasploit
6. Chapter 4: Information Gathering with Metasploit 7. Chapter 5: Vulnerability Hunting with Metasploit 8. Chapter 6: Client-Side Attacks with Metasploit 9. Chapter 7: Web Application Scanning with Metasploit 10. Chapter 8: Antivirus Evasion and Anti-Forensics 11. Chapter 9: Cyber Attack Management with Armitage 12. Chapter 10: Extending Metasploit and Exploit Development 13. Chapter 11: Case Studies 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Making Metasploit effective and powerful using supplementary tools

So far, we have seen that Metasploit is a really powerful framework for penetration testing. However, it can be made even more useful if integrated with some other tools. This section covers a few tools that complement Metasploit's capability to perform more precise penetration on the target system. We'll start with the Nessus tool.

Nessus

Nessus is a product from Tenable Network Security and is one of the most popular vulnerability assessment tools. It belongs to the vulnerability scanner category. It is quite easy to use, and it quickly identifies infrastructure-level vulnerabilities in the target system. Once Nessus tells us what vulnerabilities exist on the target system, we can then feed those vulnerabilities to Metasploit to see whether they can be exploited for real.

Its official website is https://www.tenable.com/.

The following screenshot shows the Nessus homepage:

Figure 1.3 – Nessus homepage ...
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