Penetration Tester‘s Open Source Toolkit, Vol. 2

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Jeremy Faircloth, Jeremy Faircloth (Security+, CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I, A+) is a Senior Principal IT Technologist for Medtronic, Inc., where he and his team architect and maintain enterprise–wide client/server and Web–based technologies. He is a member of the Society for Technical Communication and frequently acts as a technical resource for other IT professionals through teaching and writing, using his expertise to help others expand their knowledge. As a systems engineer with over 19 years of real–world IT experience, he has become an expert in many areas including Web development, database administration, enterprise security, network design, large enterprise applications and project management. Jeremy is also a contributing author to over a dozen technical books covering a variety of topics.
Chris Hurley, Chris Hurley is a Senior Penetration Tester in the Washington, DC area. He has more than 10 years of experience performing penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and general INFOSEC grunt work. He is the founder of the WorldWide WarDrive, a four–year project to assess the security posture of wireless networks deployed throughout the world. Chris was also the original organizer of the DEF CON WarDriving contest. He is the lead author of WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 19318360305). He has contributed to several other Syngress publications, including Penetration Tester‘s Open Source Toolkit (ISBN: 1–5974490210), Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity (ISBN: 1597490067), InfoSec Career Hacking (ISBN: 1597490113), and OS X for Hackers at Heart (ISBN: 1597490407). He has a BS from Angelo State University in Computer Science and a whole bunch of certifications to make himself feel important.

Description
Penetration testing a network requires a delicate balance of art and science. A penetration tester must be creative enough to think outside of the box to determine the best attack vector into his own network, and also be expert in using the literally hundreds of tools required to execute the plan. This second volume adds over 300 new pentesting applications included with BackTrack 2 to the pen tester‘s toolkit. It includes the latest information on Snort, Nessus, Wireshark, Metasploit, Kismet and all of the other major Open Source platforms.

Audience:
IT Security Professionals and software developers



About the Author:

Jeremy Faircloth (Security+, CCNA, MCSE, MCP+I, A+) is a Senior Principal IT Technologist for Medtronic, Inc., where he and his team architect and maintain enterprise–wide client/server and Web–based technologies. He is a member of the Society for Technical Communication and frequently acts as a technical resource for other IT professionals through teaching and writing, using his expertise to help others expand their knowledge. As a systems engineer with over 19 years of real–world IT experience, he has become an expert in many areas including Web development, database administration, enterprise security, network design, large enterprise applications and project management. Jeremy is also a contributing author to over a dozen technical books covering a variety of topics.

Chris Hurley is a Senior Penetration Tester in the Washington, DC area. He has more than 10 years of experience performing penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and general INFOSEC grunt work. He is the founder of the WorldWide WarDrive, a four–year project to assess the security posture of wireless networks deployed throughout the world. Chris was also the original organizer of the DEF CON WarDriving contest. He is the lead author of WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend (Syngress Publishing, ISBN: 19318360305). He has contributed to several other Syngress publications, including Penetration Tester‘s Open Source Toolkit (ISBN: 1–5974490210), Stealing the Network: How to Own an Identity (ISBN: 1597490067), InfoSec Career Hacking (ISBN: 1597490113), and OS X for Hackers at Heart (ISBN: 1597490407). He has a BS from Angelo State University in Computer Science and a whole bunch of certifications to make himself feel important.