Appendix A
CASP Lab Manual
Welcome to the companion CASP exam lab manual. This lab manual provides a hands-on approach to understanding some of the technical concepts introduced in this book.
These exercises have been designed so that you can perform all labs from a single PC. After just a few short exercises you will be practicing many of the same concepts that you have read about in this book, and you will get to do this from within a fully functional network consisting of multiple Linux distributions contained in a virtual environment that you install. You will have an opportunity to try out various security tools, Live CDs, and forensic tools and to perform routing and switching tasks utilizing emulation software that lets you run an actual ...