Art of Network Penetration Testing, The: Free practice environment

For system administrators, network professionals, beginning pentesters, and security consultants. The Art of Network Penetration Testing is a hands-on guide to running your own penetration test on an enterprise network.After setting up a virtual environment to use as your lab, you’ll work step-by-step through every stage of a professional pentest, from information gathering to seizing control of a vulnerable system.You’ll learn a repeatable process you can use to identify valuable targets within a typical enterprise environment, perform controlled exploitation of critical security weaknesses, elevate network level privileges, and pivot laterally through the network.Finally, you’ll learn how to write up your findings in a clear and actionable report, to ensure a system can be protected against the weaknesses you’ve identified. Set up a virtual pentest lab using Ubuntu Linux Identify internal weaknesses on compromised systems Exploit network vulnerabilities to compromise Windows and Linu