Who this book is for

This book is a set of reminders for the working ethical hacker and a guidebook to the Kali Linux toolkit for network analysts who are improving their value to the enterprise by adding offense to their security analyst defense. You ideally are a network engineer with a good grasp of networking concepts and operating systems. If the network security engineer title is no longer large enough to fit your skill set, this book can increase your skills even more.

To get the most out of this book, you need to have:

  • Curiosity about how systems fail and how they can be protected
  • Advanced experience with Linux operating systems and the bash terminal emulator
  • Advanced experience with the Windows desktop and command line

If you are an absolute ...

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