Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition

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Goal-Based Penetration Testing

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way the world operates. Organizations of all sizes have transformed themselves from having none or partial remote working to all of their employees adopting this style. With the new normal, accessible and remote technology has become very important for work and in peoples’ personal lives. We can certainly call this a virtual world, where confidential activities that used to happen in closed rooms now happen over the internet. This has significantly increased the number of cyber threats at least five-fold. Threat actors utilize this digital transformation to exploit the mistakes made by users and companies as their entry point for financial gain, generating reputational damage, ...