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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 10. Building penetration test labs
Information in this chapter
• Objectives
• Approach
• Core Technologies
• Open Source Tools
• Case Study: The Tools in Action
• Hands-On Challenge
As the preceding chapters discussed, numerous options are available for learning the ins and outs of penetration testing. However, when it comes to targets with which to practice penetration testing safely and legally, the only real option is to create a penetration test lab. This chapter focuses on the four steps for setting up such a lab: determine your objectives, design the architecture, build the lab, and run the lab. Next, it discusses virtualization technology, explaining how a hypervisor interacts with the physical hardware used for the virtual machine host, ...
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ISBN: 9781597496278