What you need for this book

  1. An Internet-connected computer/laptop for your Kali attack platform.
  2. A workstation with a minimum of 8 GB of RAM. An Ubuntu or Debian base OS is recommended.
  3. The Kali Linux ISO that matches your workstation architecture (32 or 64 bit). Download it from http://kali.org.
  4. Oracle VirtualBox for your workstation to create VMs for Windows and Kali Linux machines.
  5. (Suggested) Several test machines to set up in your test network.
  6. Licenses for Windows 7, Windows 8 (8.1), Windows 10, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012. You can get evaluation copies of all of these except Windows 7 from Microsoft's website (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/).

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