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Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, 3rd Edition
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Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, 3rd Edition

by Jeremy Faircloth
August 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 57m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 7. Network devices
Jeremy Faircloth
10662 Monroe Dr. NE, Blaine, MN 55434, United States
Information in this chapter:
• Objectives
• Approach
• Core Technologies
• Open Source Tools
• Case Study: The Tools in Action
• Hands-On Challenge
Routers and switches route and direct packets and enable communications at the lowest layers of a network. Therefore, a penetration test is incomplete if it omits network devices, because if a penetration tester can gain control over these devices, he can likely gain control over the entire network. This chapter discusses the penetration testing of network devices. It first explains the objective of penetration testing network devices, and then dives into the core technologies, examining the purposes of switches, ...
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ISBN: 9781597496278