Product Description
Written as an interactive tutorial, this book covers the core of BackTrack with real-world examples and step-by-step instructions to provide professional guidelines and recommendations to you. The book is designed in a simple and intuitive manner, which allows you to explore the whole BackTrack testing process or study parts of it individually. If you are an IT security professional or network administrator who has a basic knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems including awareness of information security factors, and you want to use BackTrack for penetration testing, then this book is for you.


Publisher: Packt Publishing (May 11, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849513945
ISBN-13: 978-1849513944


Table of Contents

Preface
PART I: Lab Preparation and Testing Procedures
Chapter 1: Beginning with BackTrack
Chapter 2: Penetration Testing Methodology
PART II: Penetration Testers Armory
Chapter 3: Target Scoping
Chapter 4: Information Gathering
Chapter 5: Target Discovery
Chapter 6: Enumerating Target
Chapter 7: Vulnerability Mapping
Chapter 8: Social Engineering
Chapter 9: Target Exploitation
Chapter 10: Privilege Escalation
Chapter 11: Maintaining Access
Chapter 12: Documentation and Reporting
PART III: Extra Ammunition
Appendix A: Supplementary Tools
Appendix B: Key Resources
Index