Preface

Defenses continue to improve and become more and more common, but this book will provide you with a number of proven techniques to defeat the latest defenses on networks. The methods and techniques contained will provide you with a powerful arsenal of best practices to increase your penetration testing success. Many of the chapters end with a challenge to the reader that is designed to enhance and perfect their penetration testing skills.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Penetration Testing Essentials, discusses why an essential element of penetration testing is planning, and a key component of this is having a methodology that emulates and matches the threat that we are portraying.

Chapter 2, Preparing a Test Environment, deals with the ...

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