Discovering cybersecurity terminologies.Understanding what matters to threat actors.Identifying threat actors and their intent.In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: Lastly, you will explore the Cyber Kill Chain framework, how cybersecurity professionals use it to prevent cyber-attacks, and how each stage can be aligned with penetration testing. Furthermore, you will also discover the need for penetration testing, its phases, and approaches used by seasoned professionals within the industry. Next, you will learn about key factors that are important to threat actors, which determine the level of complexity to compromise a system in comparison to cybersecurity professionals such as ethical hackers and penetration testers who are hired to discover and exploit hidden security weaknesses within a target organization. In this chapter, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the various characteristics of various threat actors, their intentions, and the motives behind their cyber-attacks against their targets. We'll be using a student-centric approach, filled with a lot of hands-on exercises starting from beginner level to intermediate, to more advanced topics and techniques, including red team engagements. The Kali Linux operating system has tons of pre-installed Linux packages/applications that are widely used within the cybersecurity industry, hence it's an arsenal filled with everything you will need. Throughout the course of this book, you will learn how to use one of the most popular Linux distributions within the cybersecurity industry to simulate real-world cyber-attacks in penetration testing exercises to discover and exploit security weaknesses on systems and networks. This allows the organization to determine any security weaknesses and implement security controls to prevent and mitigate a real cyber-attack. A penetration tester is a cybersecurity professional who has the skills of a hacker they are hired by an organization to perform simulations of real-world cyber-attacks on the organization's network infrastructure with the objective of discovering and exploiting security vulnerabilities. This book is designed with the intent to provide you with the knowledge, wisdom, and skills that an aspiring penetration tester needs in order to be super awesome within the cybersecurity industry. Due to these threats in the digital world, new professions are being created within many organizations for people who can help protect and safeguard their assets. Each day security professionals are discovering new and emerging threats at a rapid rate and organizations' assets are becoming compromised by threat actors. Finally, this book covers best practices for performing complex web penetration testing techniques in a highly secured environment.īy the end of this Kali Linux book, you’ll have gained the skills to perform advanced penetration testing on enterprise networks using Kali Linux.Ĭybersecurity is one of the most rapidly growing fields within the information technology ( IT) industry. In this updated second edition, you’ll be able to compromise Active Directory and exploit enterprise networks. You’ll learn to discover target systems on a network, identify security flaws on devices, exploit security weaknesses and gain access to networks, set up Command and Control (C2) operations, and perform web application penetration testing. Throughout this book, you’ll focus on information gathering and even discover different vulnerability assessment tools bundled in Kali Linux. Using real-world scenarios, you’ll understand how to set up a lab and explore core penetration testing concepts. This book is a comprehensive guide for those who are new to Kali Linux and penetration testing that will have you up to speed in no time. Using Kali Linux, a cybersecurity professional will be able to discover and exploit various vulnerabilities and perform advanced penetration testing on both enterprise wired and wireless networks. Kali Linux is the most popular and advanced penetration testing Linux distribution within the cybersecurity industry.
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