Professional Penetration Testing
Creating and Operating a Formal Hacking Lab
by Thomas Wilhelm
Technical Editor
Jan Kanclirz Jr.
This book is different from most, in that there are two mediums in which you learn
about the topic of penetration testing. The first is the printed material and the
second is the accompanying DVD. Read from cover to cover, the printed material
provides the reader a systematic way of learning how penetration tests are
conducted professionally and what management and engineering skills are needed
to successfully complete a PenTest.
The DVD includes two different video courses, which have been used to teach
fundamental and intermediate penetration test skills online to students around the
world.
Even though the DVD could be used independently from the book, the
material on the DVD and in the book complement each other, and should be used
in tandem. The DVD also contains Live CD images of servers that can be used as
learning platforms so that we can reinforce what we cover in the book or in the
videos.