Wolf Halton

Now, more than ever, Leaders such as yourself must incorporate heightened awareness of cybersecurity into your daily life. Many things can be automated, and there are people hired to keep breaches to a minimum in your offices. This handbook is intended to alert you to a surprising amount of control you can assert in the seemingly unending cyber-barrage on your networks, your company and personal devices, as well as your clients' personally identifiable information.The author, Wolf Halton has been in Information Technology roles since before there was a named IT Industry. He holds a Master's Degree in IT Project Management and Leadership with a focus on Information Security. He has consulted with colleges to create graduate degrees (Master's and PhD) in IT Security. He has been lead author of four textbooks, a course, and about a dozen articles about the nuts and bolts of how systems are compromised (hacked). He spent six years working my way up from adjunct to acting chair of the School of Computer Networking at a technical college in Atlanta GA, where he taught penetration testing, Python programming, and operating systems. In the last few years he has worked with large companies in the Financial and Communications Industries as a Principal Security Architect, focused generally on Compliance and Policy.This book is for you * If you own a small or mid-sized business* If you are a team manager, or a department director (including the CISO or the CIO)* If you do not work in an IT team, but use computers or mobile devices in the course of your work or home life* If you work in a highly regulated industry* If you have access at any time to patient medical records or to client financial records* If you have access to employee records (including your own)This book may not be for you * If you never use a computer or a mobile device to get on the Internet* If you represent any specific technical solution* If you are looking for ways to hack into computer systems (for this you need to get a copy of "Kali Linux: Windows Penetration Testing" by Halton and Weaver (2nd Edition 2018)."

Become the ethical hacker you need to be to protect your networkKey FeaturesSet up, configure, and run a newly installed Kali-Linux 2018.xFootprint, monitor, and audit your network and investigate any ongoing infestationsCustomize Kali Linux with this professional guide so it becomes your pen testing toolkitBook DescriptionMicrosoft Windows is one of the two most common OSes, and managing its security has spawned the discipline of IT security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares the legendary stability of that OS. This lets you focus on using the network penetration, password cracking, and forensics tools, and not the OS.This book has the most advanced tools and techniques to reproduce the methods used by sophisticated hackers to make you an expert in Kali Linux penetration testing. You will start by learning about the various desktop environments that now come with Kali. The book covers network sniffers and analysis tools to uncover the Windows protocols in use on the network. You will see several tools designed to improve your average in password acquisition, from hash cracking, online attacks, offline attacks, and rainbow tables to social engineering. It also demonstrates several use cases for Kali Linux tools like Social Engineering Toolkit, and Metasploit, to exploit Windows vulnerabilities.Finally, you will learn how to gain full system-level access to your compromised system and then maintain that access. By the end of this book, you will be able to quickly pen test your system and network using easy-to-follow instructions and support images.What you will learnLearn advanced set up techniques for Kali and the Linux operating systemUnderstand footprinting and reconnaissance of networksDiscover new advances and improvements to the Kali operating systemMap and enumerate your Windows networkExploit several common Windows network vulnerabilitiesAttack and defeat password schemes on WindowsDebug and reverse engineer Windows programsRecover lost files, investigate successful hacks, and discover hidden dataWho this book is forIf you are a working ethical hacker who is looking to expand the offensive skillset with a thorough understanding of Kali Linux, then this is the book for you. Prior knowledge about Linux operating systems, BASH terminal, and Windows command line would be highly beneficial.

Kali Linux: a complete pentesting toolkit facilitating smooth backtracking for working hackers About This Book • Conduct network testing, surveillance, pen testing and forensics on MS Windows using Kali Linux • Footprint, monitor, and audit your network and investigate any ongoing infestations • Customize Kali Linux with this professional guide so it becomes your pen testing toolkit Who This Book Is For If you are a working ethical hacker who is looking to expand the offensive skillset with a thorough understanding of Kali Linux, then this is the book for you. Prior knowledge about Linux operating systems and the BASH terminal emulator along with Windows desktop and command line would be highly beneficial. What You Will Learn • Set up Kali Linux for pen testing • Map and enumerate your Windows network • Exploit several common Windows network vulnerabilities • Attack and defeat password schemes on Windows • Debug and reverse-engineer Windows programs • Recover lost files, investigate successful hacks and discover hidden data in innocent-looking files • Catch and hold admin rights on the network, and maintain backdoors on the network after your initial testing is done In Detail Microsoft Windows is one of the two most common OS and managing its security has spawned the discipline of IT security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares the legendary stability of that OS. This lets you focus on using the network penetration, password cracking, forensics tools and not the OS. This book has the most advanced tools and techniques to reproduce the methods used by sophisticated hackers to make you an expert in Kali Linux penetration testing. First, you are introduced to Kali's top ten tools and other useful reporting tools. Then, you will find your way around your target network and determine known vulnerabilities to be able to exploit a system remotely. Next, you will prove that the vulnerabilities you have found are real and exploitable. You will learn to use tools in seven categories of exploitation tools. Further, you perform web access exploits using tools like websploit and more. Security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. Passwords are often that weak link. Thus, you learn about password attacks that can be used in concert with other approaches to break into and own a network. Moreover, you come to terms with network sniffing, which helps you understand which users are using services you can exploit, and IP spoofing, which can be used to poison a system's DNS cache. Once you gain access to a machine or network, maintaining access is important. Thus, you not only learn penetrating in the machine you also learn Windows privilege's escalations. With easy to follow step-by-step instructions and support images, you will be able to quickly pen test your system and network. Style and approach This book is a hands-on guide for Kali Linux pen testing. This book will provide all the practical knowledge needed to test your network's security using a proven hacker's methodology. The book uses easy-to-understand yet professional language for explaining concepts.