September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
150 pages
6h 1m
English
book
Penetration Testing
by James Hayes, Nick Furneaux, Jims Marchang, Rob Ellis, Jason Charalambous, Moinuddin Zaki, Peter Taylor, Roderick Douglas, Felix Ryan, Ceri Charlton, Gemma Moore, Tylor Robinson, Sharif Gardner
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GLOSSARY
Attack vector: An entry route into a system.
Black-box testing: Implies the tester has no knowledge of the system under test.
Compliance standards: The framework of requirements set out by government, regulatory bodies and other organisations.
Cyber attack: A modern colloquial term meaning the accessing, or blocking, of a digital asset such as a computer, device or an entire network by a person or group, without permission of the owner.
Fingerprinting: The act of gathering certain attributes of a computer or person and drawing conclusions from that data to help make an attack more successful. Also known as ‘profiling’.
Grey-box testing: Provides the tester with some internal knowledge of the system under test.
Hacker: A technically skilled ...