Network vulnerability assessment: identify security loopholes in your network's infrastructure

Being able to identify security loopholes has become critical to many businesses. That's where learning network security assessment becomes very important. This book will not only show you how to find out the system vulnerabilities but also help you build a network security threat model

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1. Verfasser: Rahalkar, Sagar (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Birmingham, Mumbai Packt 2018
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Zusammenfassung:Being able to identify security loopholes has become critical to many businesses. That's where learning network security assessment becomes very important. This book will not only show you how to find out the system vulnerabilities but also help you build a network security threat model
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright and Credits -- Packt Upsell -- Contributors -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Vulnerability Management Governance -- Security basics -- The CIA triad -- Confidentiality -- Integrity -- Availability -- Identification -- Authentication -- Authorization -- Auditing -- Accounting -- Non-repudiation -- Vulnerability -- Threats -- Exposure -- Risk -- Safeguards -- Attack vectors -- Understanding the need for security assessments -- Types of security tests -- Security testing -- Vulnerability assessment versus penetration testing -- Security assessment -- Security audit -- Business drivers for vulnerability management -- Regulatory compliance -- Satisfying customer demands -- Response to some fraud/incident -- Gaining a competitive edge -- Safeguarding/protecting critical infrastructures -- Calculating ROIs -- Setting up the context -- Bottom-up -- Top-down -- Policy versus procedure versus standard versus guideline -- Vulnerability assessment policy template -- Penetration testing standards -- Penetration testing lifecycle -- Industry standards -- Open Web Application Security Project testing guide -- Benefits of the framework -- Penetration testing execution standard -- Benefits of the framework -- Summary -- Exercises -- Chapter 2: Setting Up the Assessment Environment -- Setting up a Kali virtual machine -- Basics of Kali Linux -- Environment configuration and setup -- Web server -- Secure Shell (SSH) -- File Transfer Protocol (FTP) -- Software management -- List of tools to be used during assessment -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Security Assessment Prerequisites -- Target scoping and planning -- Gathering requirements -- Preparing a detailed checklist of test requirements -- Suitable time frame and testing hours -- Identifying stakeholders -- Deciding upon the type of vulnerability assessment
Types of vulnerability assessment -- Types of vulnerability assessment based on the location -- External vulnerability assessment -- Internal vulnerability assessment -- Based on knowledge about environment/infrastructure -- Black-box testing -- White-box testing -- Gray-box testing -- Announced and unannounced testing -- Automated testing -- Authenticated and unauthenticated scans -- Agentless and agent-based scans -- Manual testing -- Estimating the resources and deliverables -- Preparing a test plan -- Getting approval and signing NDAs -- Confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Information Gathering -- What is information gathering? -- Importance of information gathering -- Passive information gathering -- Reverse IP lookup -- Site report -- Site archive and way-back -- Site metadata -- Looking for vulnerable systems using Shodan -- Advanced information gathering using Maltego -- theHarvester -- Active information gathering -- Active information gathering with SPARTA -- Recon-ng -- Dmitry -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Enumeration and Vulnerability Assessment -- What is enumeration? -- Enumerating services -- HTTP -- FTP -- SMTP -- SMB -- DNS -- SSH -- VNC -- Using Nmap scripts -- http-methods -- smb-os-discovery -- http-sitemap-generator -- mysql-info -- Vulnerability assessments using OpenVAS -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Gaining Network Access -- Gaining remote access -- Direct access -- Target behind router -- Cracking passwords -- Identifying hashes -- Cracking Windows passwords -- Password profiling -- Password cracking with Hydra -- Creating backdoors using Backdoor Factory -- Exploiting remote services using Metasploit -- Exploiting vsftpd -- Exploiting Tomcat -- Hacking embedded devices using RouterSploit -- Social engineering using SET -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Assessing Web Application Security
Beschreibung:VI, 241 Seiten Diagramme
ISBN:9781788627252

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