Advanced Penetration Testing

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781119367680 Author(s): Wil Allsopp Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2017 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc Pages: 288

Description: Build a better defense against motivated, organized, professional attacks Advanced Penetration Testing: Hacking the World's Most Secure Networks takes hacking far beyond Kali linux and Metasploit to provide a more complex attack simulation. Featuring techniques not taught in any certification prep or covered by common defensive scanners, this book integrates social engineering, programming, and vulnerability exploits into a multidisciplinary approach for targeting and compromising high security environments. From discovering and creating attack vectors, and moving unseen through a target enterprise, to establishing command and exfiltrating dataâeven from organizations without a direct Internet connectionâthis guide contains the crucial techniques that provide a more accurate picture of your system's defense. Custom coding examples use VBA, Windows Scripting Host, C, Java, JavaScript, Flash, and more, with coverage of standard library applications and the use of scanning tools to bypass common defensive measures. Typical penetration testing consists of low-level hackers attacking a system with a list of known vulnerabilities, and defenders preventing those hacks using an equally well-known list of defensive scans. The professional hackers and nation states on the forefront of today's threats operate at a much more complex levelâand this book shows you how to defend your high security network. Use targeted social engineering pretexts to create the initial compromiseLeave a command and control structure in place for long-term accessEscalate privilege and breach networks, operating systems, and trust structuresInfiltrate further using harvested credentials while expanding control Today's threats are organized, professionally-run, and very much for-profit. Financial institutions, health care organizati