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Sanjib SinhaBeginning Ethical Hacking with Kali Linuxhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3891-2_4

4. Know Your Network

Sanjib Sinha1 
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Howrah, West Bengal, India
 

A wide knowledge of networking is important for learning how to perform ethical hacking. This book offers very little scope for learning networking in a wider sense, as I don’t want to deviate from the original plan of you learning how to use Kali Linux hacking-related tools. However, you must accept the fact that the security layer starts at the top with networks or communication links. Therefore, network security is extremely important to ethical hackers.

In this chapter, I will give a brief introduction to how networking works, and as you progress with ethical hacking ...

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