Ebook: Penetration Testing Basics: a Quick-Start Guide to Breaking into Systems

This short book covers the foundations of a simple methodology used to perform penetration testing on systems and networks that you are responsible for. In it you will learn how to break systems, networks and software in order to determine where the bad guys might get in. Once the holes have been determined, it discusses how they can be fixed. Until they have been located, they are exposures to your organization.
What You Will LearnHow to identify security vulnerabilitiesHow to use some of the top security tools to identify holesHow to read reports from testing toolsHow to spot and negate common attacksHow to identify common Web-based attacks and exposures as well as recommendations for closing those holesAudience
Anyone who has some familiarity with computers and an interest in information security and penetration testing could be the audience for this book.