Detect and mitigate diverse cyber threats with actionable insights into attacker types, techniques, and efficient cyber threat hunting
Key Features
Explore essential tools and techniques to ethically penetrate and safeguard digital environments
Set up a malware lab and learn how to detect malicious code running on the network
Understand different attacker types, their profiles, and mindset, to enhance your cyber defense plan
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Book Description
If you’re an ethical hacker looking to boost your digital defenses and stay up to date with the evolving cybersecurity landscape, then this book is for you. Hands-On Ethical Hacking Tactics is a comprehensive guide that will take you from fundamental to advanced levels of ethical hacking, offering insights into both offensive and defensive techniques. Written by a seasoned professional with 20+ years of experience, this book covers attack tools, methodologies, and procedures, helping you enhance your skills in securing and defending networks.
The book starts with foundational concepts such as footprinting, reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, vulnerability assessment, and threat modeling. Next, you’ll progress to using specific tools and procedures for hacking Windows, Unix, web servers, applications, and databases. The book also gets you up to speed with malware analysis. Throughout the book, you’ll experience a smooth transition from theoretical concepts to hands-on techniques using various platforms. Finally, you’ll explore incident response, threat hunting, social engineering, IoT hacking, and cloud exploitation, which will help you address the complex aspects of ethical hacking.
By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the skills you need to navigate the ever-changing world of cybersecurity.
What you will learn
Understand the core concepts and principles of ethical hacking
Gain hands-on experience through dedicated labs
Explore how attackers leverage computer systems in the digital landscape
Discover essential defensive technologies to detect and mitigate cyber threats
Master the use of scanning and enumeration tools
Understand how to hunt and use search information to identify attacks
Who this book is for
Hands-On Ethical Hacking Tactics is for penetration testers, ethical hackers, and cybersecurity enthusiasts looking to explore attack tools, methodologies, and procedures relevant to today’s cybersecurity landscape. This ethical hacking book is suitable for a broad audience with varying levels of expertise in cybersecurity, whether you’re a student or a professional looking for job opportunities, or just someone curious about the field.
Table of Contents
Ethical Hacking Concepts
Ethical Hacking Footprinting and Reconnaissance
Ethical Hacking Scanning and Enumeration
Ethical Hacking Vulnerability Assessment and Threat Modeling
Hacking the Windows Operating System
Hacking the Linux Operating System
Ethical Hacking of Web Servers
Hacking Databases
Ethical Hacking Protocol Review
Ethical Hacking for Malware Analysis
Incident Response and Threat Hunting
Social Engineering
Ethical Hacking of the Internet of Things (IoT)
Ethical Hacking in the Cloud
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