Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing: Secure your network with Kali Linux 2019.1 – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit

✍ Scribed by Velu, Vijay Kumar;Beggs, Robert

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 548
• Edition: Third edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A practical guide to testing your infrastructure security with Kali Linux, the preferred choice of pentesters and hackers

Key Features

Employ advanced pentesting techniques with Kali Linux to build highly secured systems

Discover various stealth techniques to remain undetected and defeat modern infrastructures

Explore red teaming techniques to exploit secured environment

Book Description

This book takes you, as a tester or security practitioner, through the reconnaissance, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation activities used by pentesters.

To start with, you'll use a laboratory environment to validate tools and techniques, along with an application that supports a collaborative approach for pentesting. You'll then progress to passive reconnaissance with open source intelligence and active reconnaissance of the external and internal infrastructure. You'll also focus on how to select, use,...