Overview
- Short and to the point practical hands-on type of book
- Quick starting point to get someone right into penetration testing
- Quick, guided tours of important security tools
- Focus on remediation strategies and not just breaking things
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
What You Will Learn
- Identify security vulnerabilities
- Use some of the top security tools to identify holes
- Read reports from testing tools
- Spot and negate common attacks
- Identify common Web-based attacks and exposures as well as recommendations for closing those holes
Who This Book Is For
Anyone who has some familiarity with computers and an interest in information security and penetration testing.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Messier has been involved in the networking and security arena since the early 1980s. He has worked at large Internet service providers and small software companies developing knowledge and experience about a range of topics related to networking and security. Messier has also been involved on incident response teams and has been consulted on forensic investigations for large companies.
An established expert in the field and author, Messier has published several articles for Hackin9 Magazine, has developed number of video training titles with O'Reilly Media and has written a number of books on information security.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Penetration Testing Basics
Book Subtitle: A Quick-Start Guide to Breaking into Systems
Authors: Ric Messier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1857-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Ric Messier 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-1856-3Published: 15 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-1857-0Published: 22 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 115
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Security, Programming Techniques, Software Engineering