Chapter 12. Penetration Testing Challenge
Throughout the book, we discussed various techniques and methodologies that, with practice, continual research, and diligence, will allow you to perform a penetration test from start to finish. This chapter allows you to put some of that information to work and bring it into perspective.
We will discuss the following items in this chapter:
- Setting up the practice environment
- Using penetration testing techniques to move from one system to another
- An example of a penetration test in a fictional company
Firewall lab setup
As we prepare for the challenge, we need to build the core firewalls; there will be three firewalls that we will use in this chapter. They are as follows:
- M0n0wall
- Pfsense-1
- Pfsense-2
The concept ...
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