Penetration Testing Basics (eBook)

Ric Messier, MS, GCIH, GSEC, CEH, CISSP is the program director for Cyber Security, Computer Forensics and Digital Investigations and the Economic Crime Investigation bachelors' degree programs, as well as the Digital Forensic Science master's degree program at Champlain College.Messier has been involved in the networking and security arena since the early 1980s. He has worked at large Internet service providers and small software companies developing knowledge and experience about a range of topics related to networking and security. Messier has also been involved on incident response teams and has been consulted on forensic investigations for large companies.An established expert in the field and author, Messier has published several articles for Hackin9 Magazine, has developed number of video training titles with O'Reilly Media and has written a number of books on information security.  

1. What Is Penetration Testing?   Information Security   Penetration Testing vs Security Assessments   Who does Penetration Testing2. Digging for Information   Google Hacking   Social Networking   Job Sites   Technical sources (e.g., regional Internet registries)3. What’s Open?   Port scanning   Banner grabbing4. Vulnerabilities   Scanning for vulnerabilities   Nessus vs Nexpose vs OpenVAS   Fuzzing5. Exploitation   Using Metasploit   Exploit Database6. Breaking Web Sites   Common Vulnerabilities   Web Scanning7. Reporting