External Penetration Testing simulates the actions of an actual attacker exploiting vulnerabilities in the network security to determine what information is actually exposed to the outside world.
Objective
You need to perform a network scan to:
- Check live systems and open ports
- Perform banner grabbing and OS fingerprinting
- Identify network vulnerabilities
- Draw network diagrams of vulnerable hosts
Scenario
An attacker makes use of vulnerabilities to disrupt the confidentiality, availability or integrity of the network, thereby allowing the organization to address each weakness. Vulnerability scanning is a critical component of any penetration testing assignment.
As an expert Penetration Tester or a Security Administrator, you need to conduct penetration testing and list the threats and vulnerabilities found in an organization's network, perform port scanning, network scanning, and vulnerability scanning to identify IP/hostname, live hosts, and vulnerabilities. Then, you need to take specific preventive countermeasures to overcome them.
External Penetration Testing
The Security Analyst Exercises / External Penetration Testing contains the following Exercises:
- Exploring and Auditing a Network Using Nmap
The Virtual Private Cloud for this Lab set utilizes:
Security Analyst Exercises are available as part of the following subscription:
Lab exercises are included for:
- TCPIP Packet Analysis
- Information Gathering
- Vulnerability Analysis
- External Penetration Testing
- Internal Network Penetration Testing
- Firewall Penetration Testing
- IDS Penetration Testing
- Password Cracking Penetration Testing
- Social Engineering Penetration Testing
- Web Application Penetration Testing
- SQL Penetration Testing
