Audiobook description
Explore the latest ethical hacking tools and techniques to perform penetration testing from scratch
About This Audiobook
- Learn to compromise enterprise networks with Kali Linux
- Gain comprehensive insights into security concepts using advanced real-life hacker techniques
- Use Kali Linux in the same way ethical hackers and penetration testers do to gain control of your environment
In Detail
Kali Linux is the most popular and advanced penetration testing Linux distribution within the cybersecurity industry. 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.
This audiobook 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 real-world scenarios, you’ll understand how to set up a lab and explore core penetration testing concepts. Throughout this book, you’ll focus on information gathering and even discover different vulnerability assessment tools bundled in Kali Linux. 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. In this updated second edition, you’ll be able to compromise Active Directory and exploit enterprise networks. Finally, this audiobook covers best practices for performing complex web penetration testing techniques in a highly secured environment.
By the end of this Kali Linux audiobook, you’ll have gained the skills to perform advanced penetration testing on enterprise networks using Kali Linux.
Audience
This pentesting audiobook is for students, trainers, cybersecurity professionals, cyber enthusiasts, network security professionals, ethical hackers, penetration testers, and security engineers. If you do not have any prior knowledge and are looking to become an expert in penetration testing using the Kali Linux operating system (OS), then this book is for you.
Table of contents
- Opening Credits
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Ethical Hacking
- Chapter 2: Building a Penetration Testing Lab
- Chapter 3: Setting Up for Advanced Hacking Techniques
- Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Footprinting Part 1
- Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Footprinting Part 2
- Chapter 5: Exploring Active Information Gathering Part 1
- Chapter 5: Exploring Active Information Gathering Part 2
- Chapter 6: Performing Vulnerability Assessments
- Chapter 7: Understanding Network Penetration Testing
- Chapter 8: Performing Network Penetration Testing Part 1
- Chapter 8: Performing Network Penetration Testing Part 2
- Chapter 9: Advanced Network Penetration Testing – Post Exploitation
- Chapter 10: Working with Active Directory Attacks
- Chapter 11: Advanced Active Directory Attacks
- Chapter 12: Delving into Command and Control Tactics
- Chapter 13: Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing Part 1
- Chapter 13: Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing Part 2
- Chapter 14: Performing Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering
- Chapter 15: Understanding Website Application Security
- Chapter 16: Advanced Website Penetration Testing
- Chapter 17: Best Practices for the Real World
- Closing Credits
Product information
- Title: The Ultimate Kali Linux Book
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2022
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781837632473
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