Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide: Learn to perform professional penetration testing for highly-secured environments with this intensive hands-on guide with this book and ebook.

• Learn how to perform an efficient, organized, and effective penetration test from start to finish
• Gain hands-on penetration testing experience by building and testing a virtual lab environment that includes commonly found security measures such as IDS and firewalls
• Take the challenge and perform a virtual penetration test against a fictional corporation from start to finish and then verify your results by walking through step-by-step solutions

• Detailed step-by-step guidance on managing testing results and writing clearly organized and effective penetration testing reports
• Properly scope your penetration test to avoid catastrophe
• Understand in detail how the testing process works from start to finish, not just how to use specific tools
• Use advanced techniques to bypass security controls and remain hidden while testing
• Create a segmented virtual network with several targets, IDS and firewall
• Generate testing reports and statistics
• Advanced web application testing and exploitation
• Perform an efficient, organized, and effective penetration test from start to finish

If you are looking for guidance and detailed instructions on how to perform a penetration test from start to finish, are looking to build out your own penetration testing lab, or are looking to improve on your existing penetration testing skills, this book is for you. Although the books attempts to accommodate those that are still new to the penetration testing field, experienced testers should be able to gain knowledge and hands-on experience as well. The book does assume that you have some experience in web application testing and as such the chapter regarding this subject may require you to understand the basic concepts of web security. The reader should also be familiar with basic IT concepts, and commonly used protocols such as TCP/IP.