Chapter 10

Conducting a Penetration Test

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Thinking like a hacker: infiltrating from outside

Bullet Doing an inside job

Bullet Keeping records

Bullet Exploring other attack methods and vectors

Bullet Looking over what you found

Bullet Protecting against future attacks

After you complete the preparation work that I cover in Chapter 9, you’re ready to do a pen test! Here I take you through the process of the test and then look at the results of the assessment as well as methods of prevention.

In this chapter, I show you how to conduct a pen test in the following scenario:

  • In the role as an outside security consultant for an organization.
  • The organization wants assistance for the current staff in doing a risk and vulnerability assessment.
  • Additionally, you’ll ethically hack their systems to see where weaknesses exist in the current security posture.

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