Preface

This book will provide you with a systematic process to follow when building a virtual environment to practice penetration testing. This book teaches you how to build the architecture, identify the latest vulnerabilities, and test them in your own environment before you use them in a production environment. This allows you to build, enhance, and hone your penetration-testing skills.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introducing Penetration Testing, provides an introduction to what pen testing is and explains how a component of professional security testing and it is the validation of vulnerabilities. By understanding penetration testing, we can prepare for providing professional security testing services to our clients.

Chapter 2, Choosing ...

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