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Kali Linux 2018: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition
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Kali Linux 2018: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition

by Shiva V. N. Parasram, Alex Samm, Damian Boodoo, Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
12h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Kali Linux 2018: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition

Chapter 14 – Assessment answers

  1. Three types of reports: - Executive report - Management report - Technical report
  2. The Risk Matrix quantifies and categorizes all the discovered vulnerabilities, identifies the resources potentially affected, and lists the discoveries, references, and recommendations in a shorthand format.
  3. A Vulnerability Map provides a list of discovered vulnerabilities found in the target infrastructure, each of which should be easily matched to the resource identifier (for example, the IP address and target name).
  4. An Exploits map provides a list of the successfully checked and verified exploits that worked against the target.
  1. A testing methodology should contain enough details to help management understand the penetration-testing ...
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ISBN: 9781789341768