Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

English | 2018 | ISBN: 978-1788624480 | 396 Pages | EPUB | 13 MB

Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing: Defend your systems from methodized and proficient attackers
A highly detailed guide to performing powerful attack vectors in many hands-on scenarios and defending significant security flaws in your company’s infrastructure
It 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 Learn

• Exposure to advanced infrastructure penetration testing techniques and methodologies
• Gain hands-on experience of penetration testing in Linux system vulnerabilities and memory exploitation
• Understand what it takes to break into enterprise networks
• Learn to secure the configuration management environment and continuous delivery pipeline
• Gain an understanding of how to exploit networks and IoT devices
• Discover real-world, post-exploitation techniques and countermeasures