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Learn Penetration Testing

Learn Penetration Testing

By : Rishalin Pillay
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Learn Penetration Testing

Learn Penetration Testing

4.7 (3)
By: Rishalin Pillay

Overview of this book

Sending information via the internet is not entirely private, as evidenced by the rise in hacking, malware attacks, and security threats. With the help of this book, you'll learn crucial penetration testing techniques to help you evaluate enterprise defenses. You'll start by understanding each stage of pentesting and deploying target virtual machines, including Linux and Windows. Next, the book will guide you through performing intermediate penetration testing in a controlled environment. With the help of practical use cases, you'll also be able to implement your learning in real-world scenarios. By studying everything from setting up your lab, information gathering and password attacks, through to social engineering and post exploitation, you'll be able to successfully overcome security threats. The book will even help you leverage the best tools, such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, Burp Suite, and other open source pentesting tools to perform these techniques. Toward the later chapters, you'll focus on best practices to quickly resolve security threats. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with various penetration testing techniques so as to be able to tackle security threats effectively
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: The Basics
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Section 2: Exploitation
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Section 3: Post Exploitation
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Section 4: Putting It All Together

Exploring and configuring Burp Suite components

Burp Suite has a wide range of tools to help penetration testers throughout the whole web application testing process. These tools enable penetration testers to map the environment, carry out vulnerability scans, and exploit vulnerabilities.

Burp Suite has a simple graphical interface that holds the two rows of tabs and various panels (Figure 6). The first row of tabs (1) are the tools that are currently installed. The second row of tabs are sub components of the main tool (2), and, within that sub component, you have various panels (3):

Figure 6: Burp Suite's interface

The example in Figure 6 shows that the main tool of Target is selected, and the sub component of Site map is selected. Within that sub component, there are multiple panels, such as Contents and Issues.

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