Popov / Fadyushin / Woody Building a Pentesting Lab for Wireless Networks

Build your own secure enterprise or home penetration testing lab to dig into the various hacking techniques
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78528-606-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Build your own secure enterprise or home penetration testing lab to dig into the various hacking techniquesKey Features - [*]Design and build an extendable penetration testing lab with wireless access suitable for home and enterprise use
- [*]Fill the lab with various components and customize them according to your own needs and skill level
- [*]Secure your lab from unauthorized access and external attacks
Book DescriptionStarting with the basics of wireless networking and its associated risks, we will guide you through the stages of creating a penetration testing lab with wireless access and preparing your wireless penetration testing machine. This book will guide you through configuring hardware and virtual network devices, filling the lab network with applications and security solutions, and making it look and work like a real enterprise network. The resulting lab protected with WPA-Enterprise will let you practice most of the attack techniques used in penetration testing projects. Along with a review of penetration testing frameworks, this book is also a detailed manual on preparing a platform for wireless penetration testing. By the end of this book, you will be at the point when you can practice, and research without worrying about your lab environment for every task. What you will learn - [*]Determine your needs and choose the appropriate lab components for them
- [*]Build a virtual or hardware lab network
- [*]Imitate an enterprise network and prepare intentionally vulnerable software and services
- [*]Secure wired and wireless access to your lab
- [*]Choose a penetration testing framework according to your needs
- [*]Arm your own wireless hacking platform
- [*]Get to know the methods to create a strong defense mechanism for your system
Who this book is forIf you are a beginner or a security professional who wishes to learn to build a home or enterprise lab environment where you can safely practice penetration testing techniques and improve your hacking skills, then this book is for you. No prior penetration testing experience is required, as the lab environment is suitable for various skill levels and is used for a wide range of techniques from basic to advance. Whether you are brand new to online learning or you are a seasoned expert, you will be able to set up your own hacking playground depending on your tasks.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Popov, Andrey

Fadyushin, Vyacheslav

Woody, Aaron

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung

Über Autor(innen)

Popov Andrey :

Andrey Popov is a security consultant and penetration tester with rich professional experience and a diverse background in infrastructure and application security, information security management, and ethical hacking. He has been working for a market-leading company along with another security professional since 2007.Fadyushin Vyacheslav :

Vyacheslav Fadyushin (CISA, CEH, PCI ASV) is a security consultant and a penetration tester with more than 9 years of professional experience and a diverse background in various aspects of information security. His main points of interest and fields of expertise are ethical hacking and penetration testing, infrastructure and application security, mobile security, and information security management. He is also an author of the book, Penetration Testing: Setting Up a Test Lab How-to, published by Packt Publishing in 2013.Woody Aaron :

Aaron Woody is an expert in information security with over 15 years of experience across several industry verticals. His experience includes securing some of the largest enterprises in the world. Currently, he is a Security Consultant in the public sector. He is also a speaker and active instructor teaching hacking and forensics, and maintains a blog n00bpentesting.com. Aaron can also be followed on twitter at @shai_saint. He will be launching a companion website (http://www.datacentricsec.com) for this book. To contact him for consulting please e-mail him at [e-mail].