Description - Hands-On Ethical Hacking Tactics: Strategies, tools, and techniques for effective cyber defense by Shane Hartman
Explore various attacker types and techniques, providing insights into how attackers compromise systems, devices, and individuals and gain knowledge on effective threat hunting to detect and mitigate diverse cyber threats.
Key Features
Explore essential tools and techniques to ethically penetrate and safeguard digital environments
Set up labs, including configuring Virtual Box, Kali Linux, and vulnerable Windows and Linux hosts
Learn about different attacker types, their mindset, and profiles associated with cyber threats
Book DescriptionEthical hacking is essential for proactively identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities, bolstering digital resilience. This book serves as a comprehensive guide, spanning from fundamental to advanced levels, offering insights into both offensive and defensive techniques. Covering attack tools, methodologies, and procedures, it lays a solid foundation for you to enhance your skills in securing and defending networks.
The book starts with foundational ethical hacking concepts such as footprinting, reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, vulnerability assessment, and threat modeling. This equips you with fundamental knowledge and practical skills to understand the intricacies of computer security. Then, it delves into specific tools and procedures for hacking Windows, Unix, web servers, applications, and databases, including in-depth discussions on malware analysis. The book examines the transition from theoretical concepts to hands-on techniques using various platforms. Finally, by the end of the book, it explores incident response, threat hunting, social engineering, IoT hacking, and cloud exploitation, addressing sophisticated aspects of ethical hacking.
By the end of this book, you will gain advanced skills and insights needed to navigate the evolving landscape of cybersecurity.What you will learn
Understand core concepts and principles of ethical hacking
Gain hands-on experience through dedicated labs
Explore how systems are used as weapons in digital landscape
Essential defensive technologies to detect and mitigate cyber threats
Master the use of scanning and enumeration tools
Learn how to hunt and use search information to identify attacks
Who this book is forThis book is for penetration testers, ethical hackers, and cybersecurity enthusiasts looking to explore attack tools, methodology, and procedures relevant to today's cybersecurity landscape. It is suitable for a broad audience with varying levels of expertise in cybersecurity, including students and professionals in the field seeking job opportunities, making it a valuable reference book.
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