1 Network penetration testing
This chapter covers
- Corporate data breaches
- Adversarial attack simulations
- When organizations don’t need a penetration test
- The four phases of an internal network penetration test
Everything today exists digitally within networked computer systems in the cloud. Your tax returns; pictures of your kids that you take with a cellphone; the locations, dates, and times of all the places you’ve navigated to using your GPS—they’re all there, ripe for the picking by an attacker who is dedicated and skilled enough.
The average enterprise corporation has 10 times (at least) as many connected devices running on its network as it does employees who use those devices to conduct normal business operations. This probably doesn’t ...
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