Advanced infrastructure penetration testing : defend your systems from methodized and proficient attackers / Chiheb Chebbi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chebbi, Chiheb, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penetration testing (Computer security).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, [England] ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2018.

Summary:

Key FeaturesAdvanced exploitation techniques to breach modern operating systems and complex network devicesLearn about Docker breakouts, Active Directory delegation, and CRON jobsPractical use cases to deliver an intelligent endpoint-protected systemBook DescriptionIt has always been difficult to gain hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of advanced penetration testing techniques and vulnerability assessment and management. This book will be your one-stop solution to compromising complex network devices and modern operating systems. This book provides you with advanced penetration testing techniques that will help you exploit databases, web and application servers, switches or routers, Docker, VLAN, VoIP, and VPN. With this book, you will explore exploitation abilities such as offensive PowerShell tools and techniques, CI servers, database exploitation, Active Directory delegation, kernel exploits, cron jobs, VLAN hopping, and Docker breakouts. Moving on, this book will not only walk you through managing vulnerabilities, but will also teach you how to ensure endpoint protection. Toward the end of this book, you will also discover post-exploitation tips, tools, and methodologies to help your organization build an intelligent security system. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills and methodologies needed to breach infrastructures and provide complete endpoint protection for your system. What you will learnExposure to advanced infrastructure penetration testing techniques and methodologiesGain hands-on experience of penetration testing in Linux system vulnerabilities and memory exploitationUnderstand what it takes to break into enterprise networksLearn to secure the configuration management environment and continuous delivery pipelineGain an understanding of how to exploit networks and IoT devicesDiscover real-world, post-exploitation techniques and countermeasuresWho this book is forIf you are a system administrator, SOC analyst, penetration tester, or a network engineer and want to take your penetration testing skills and security knowledge to the next level, then this book is for you. Some prior experience with penetration testing tools and knowledge of Linux and Windows command-line syntax is beneficial.

Contents:

Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing: Defend your systems from methodized and proficient attackers

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed March 21, 2018).

ISBN:

9781788623414

178862341X

OCLC:

1463579656