What is penetration testing?

<aside> 💡 Penetration testing (or pen testing) is a security exercise where a cyber-security expert attempts to find and exploit vulnerabilities in a Device. The purpose of this simulated attack is to identify any weak spots in a system’s defenses which attackers could take advantage of.

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[Practical] Firewall Penetration Testing // Firewall Audit

<aside> 💡 Firewall penetration testing is the process of locating, investigating, and penetrating a certain firewall in order to reach the internal trusted network of a certain system. Mostly considered to be a key part of external network penetration testing firewall.

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In this Video, we discussed the below points.

  1. Locating The Firewall

  2. Conducting Traceroute

  3. Port Scanning

  4. Banner Grabbing

  5. Firewall Enumeration

  6. Testing The Firewall Policy

  7. Firewalking

  8. How to identify Firewall Specific Vulnerabilities

<aside> 💡 Tools: NMAP, HPING3, Firewalk Network audit tool, Tracert, Traceroute

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