January 2017
Beginner to intermediate
1045 pages
22h 24m
English
book
Penetration Testing: A Survival Guide
by Wolf Halton, Bo Weaver, Juned Ahmed Ansari, Srinivasa Rao Kotipalli, Mohammed A. Imran
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Creating workspaces to organize your attack
First, we need to set up a workspace. Workspaces are a big help in keeping your testing in order. The workspaces hold all your collected data of the test, including any login credentials that are collected and any system data collected during an exploit. It's best to keep your testing data separate so you can compare the results of a previous test later. We're going to set up a project called TestCompany-int-20150402. This is a way to name projects, with <client-name>-[ int (internal) | ext (external) ]-<start-date (unix-style)> This will help you 6 months down the road to remember which test is what.
To create a new project type:
workspace -a TestCompany-int-20150402
To enter the workspace type:
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