Key Features
- Explore and build intricate architectures that allow you to emulate an enterprise network
- Test and enhance your security skills against complex and hardened virtual architecture
- Learn methods to bypass common enterprise defenses and leverage them to test the most secure environments.
Book Description
Security flaws and new hacking techniques emerge overnight security professionals need to make sure they always have a way to keep . With this practical guide, learn how to build your own virtual pentesting lab environments to practice and develop your security skills. Create challenging environments to test your abilities, and overcome them with proven processes and methodologies used by global penetration testing teams.
Get to grips with the techniques needed to build complete virtual machines perfect for pentest training. Construct and attack layered architectures, and plan specific attacks based on the platforms you re going up against. Find new vulnerabilities for different kinds of systems and networks, and what these mean for your clients.
Driven by a proven penetration testing methodology that has trained thousands of testers, Building Virtual Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition will prepare you for participation in professional security teams.
What you will learn
- Learning proven security testing and penetration testing techniques
- Building multi-layered complex architectures to test the latest network designs
- Applying a professional testing methodology
- Determining whether there are filters between you and the target and how to penetrate them
- Deploying and finding weaknesses in common firewall architectures.
- Learning advanced techniques to deploy against hardened environments
- Learning methods to circumvent endpoint protection controls
Kevin Cardwell currently works as a freelance consultant and provides consulting services for companies all over the world. He developed the Strategy and Training Development Plan for the first Government CERT in the country of Oman and developed the team to man the first Commercial Security Operations Center there. He has worked extensively with banks and financial institutions throughout the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the UK. He currently provides consultancy services to commercial companies, governments, major banks, and financial institutions across the globe. He is the author of the book Backtrack - Testing Wireless Network Security, Packt Publishing.
