

Perform practical penetration testing using the various tools available in Kali Linux.Understand the Penetration Testing Process and its various phases.

The authors of the book lay a particularly strong emphasis on documentation and the importance of generatingĬrisp and concise reports which keep the various stakeholders’ requirements at the center stage. Starting your journey from gathering initial information about the targets and performing enumeration to identify potential weaknesses and sequentially building upon this knowledge to refine the attacks and utilize weaknesses to fully compromise the target machines. Learn to comfortably navigate the Kali Linux and perform administrative activities, get to know shell scripting, and write simple scripts to effortlessly run complex commands and automate repetitive testing tasks.Įxplore the various phases of the testing framework while practically demonstrating the numerous tools and techniques available within Kali Linux. Understand the theoretical aspects of penetration testing and create a penetration testing lab environment consisting of various targets to learn and practice your skills. This book is designed to introduce the topic of penetration testing using a structured and easy-to-learn process-driven framework.

Don't assume these are going to read like a how-to or you will disappointed. If your looking for something to help you remember commands or syntax while using some of the tools books like: Don't underestimate the man pages or help commands for the tools included in Kali. There are books out there dedicated to tools like metasploit and nmap but the documentation on those sites I find are more useful then any of those books. The site is a little outdated but the fundamentals remain the same. Sites like has some great tutorials and they are organized by tool or stage of pentest. This is where reading the documentation from the creators and different online tutorials come in to play. This is why learning linux before starting Kali is always helpful. Comptia Linux + study guides will dive much deeper. O'Reilly has some really great starter books and learning manuals. From an operating system perspective any books on linux (especially Debian based distros) will teach you what you need to know. Kali is an OS packaged with specialty tools.
