Mastering Distributed Tracing: Analyzing performance in microservices and complex systems - Softcover

Shkuro, Dr. Yuri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788628462 ISBN 13: 9781788628464

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

With Kali Linux you can test the vulnerabilities of your network and then take steps to secure it. This engaging tutorial is a comprehensive guide to this penetration testing platform, specially written for IT security professionals.

Key Features

• Learn penetration testing techniques with an in-depth coverage of Kali Linux distribution
• Explore the insights and importance of testing your corporate network systems before the hackers strike
• Understand the practical spectrum of security tools by their exemplary usage, configuration, and benefits

Book Description

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement.

Kali Linux - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.

What you will learn

• Develop the Kali Linux environment in your test lab by installing, configuring, running, and updating its core system components
• Perform a formal Kali Linux testing methodology
• Scope your target with definitive test requirements, limitations, business objectives, and schedule the test plan
• Exercise a number of security tools from Kali Linux, logically divided into subcategories of testing methodology
• Practice the processes of reconnaissance, discovery, enumeration, vulnerability mapping, social engineering, exploitation, privilege escalation, and maintaining access to target for evaluation purposes
• Document, report, and present your verified test results to the relevant authorities in a formal reporting structure

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Yuri Shkuro holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, and a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from MEPhI (Moscow Engineering & Physics Institute), one of Russia's top three universities. Yuri is the author of many academic papers in the area of machine learning and neural networks, which have been cited in over 130 other publications. Yuris impressive career includes 15 years on Wall Street, building trading and risk management systems for derivatives at top investment banks, Goldman Sacks, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, and over three years on Ubers Infrastructure & Observability team. His open-source credentials include being a co-founder and a member of the Specification Council of the OpenTracing project, and the creator and current tech lead of Jaeger, a distributed tracing system developed at Uber. Both projects are incubating at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Outside of his academic and professional career, Yuri was an editor and co-producer of several animated shorts directed by Lev Polyakov, including:Only Love (2008), which screened at over 30 film festivals and won several awardsPiper the Goat and the Peace Pipe (2005), a winner at the Ottawa International Animation Festival

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788628462
• ISBN 13: 9781788628464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 444