Penetration Testing Essentials

Sean-Philip Oriyano

• 23 december 2016
• 9781119235309

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Your pen testing career begins here, with a solid foundation in essential skills and concepts Penetration Testing Essentials provides a starting place for professionals and beginners looking to learn more about penetration testing for cybersecurity.

Learn Penetration Testing Quickly and Easily

Penetration Testing Essentials is your one-stop solution for gaining a robust foundation in discovering and reporting system vulnerabilities. This beginning guide puts you ahead of the curve before pursuing the new penetration testing certifications held by the most sought after cybersecurity experts in the world. In-depth, easy-to-understand coverage walks you through the technical and behavioral ways attackers compromise computer security, before giving you the tools you need to carry out the same penetration tests used by today's best ethical hackers. Start gaining a solid foundation of penetration testing fundamentals today.

Learn these penetration testing essentials—and more:

• Security, cryptography, and system hardening fundamentals
• Breaking and entering methods and maintaining access to a system
• Information gathering, scanning, and enumeration techniques
• Covering your tracks with dependable tactics
• Detecting and targeting wireless networks
• Escaping and evading detection
• Building a pen testing lab and developing a pen testing tool box
• Penetrating a system with a state-of-the-art methodology

This striking Essentials book features:

• Chapter-opening learning objectives
• Step-by-step tutorials
• Essentials and Beyond—summaries and additional suggested exercises
• Downloadable exercise files

Penetration Testing Essentials provides a starting place for professionals and beginners looking to learn more about penetration testing for cybersecurity. Certification eligibility requires work experience—but before you get that experience, you need a basic understanding of the technical and behavioral ways attackers compromise security, and the tools and techniques you'll use to discover the weak spots before others do. You'll learn information gathering techniques, scanning and enumeration, how to target wireless networks, and much more as you build your pen tester skill set. You'll learn how to break in, look around, get out, and cover your tracks, all without ever being noticed. Pen testers are tremendously important to data security, so they need to be sharp and well-versed in technique, but they also need to work smarter than the average hacker. This book set you on the right path, with expert instruction from a veteran IT security expert with multiple security certifications.

IT Security certifications have stringent requirements and demand a complex body of knowledge. This book lays the groundwork for any IT professional hoping to move into a cybersecurity career by developing a robust pen tester skill set.

• Learn the fundamentals of security and cryptography
• Master breaking, entering, and maintaining access to a system
• Escape and evade detection while covering your tracks
• Build your pen testing lab and the essential toolbox

Start developing the tools and mindset you need to become experienced in pen testing today.