Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing

Vijay Kumar Velu

Language: English

Published: Jan 30, 2019

Description:

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,...