Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing

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About the Reviewers

Terry P. Cutler is a cyber security expert (a certified ethical hacker) and the cofounder and chief technology officer of IT security and data defense firm, Digital Locksmiths Inc. in Montréal, Canada. They protect small businesses, large agencies, families, and individuals from cyber criminals who victimize an estimated 1.5 million people a day (600,000 on Facebook alone).

He specializes in anticipation, assessment, and prevention of security breaches for governments, corporations, businesses, and consumers. Having been a certified ethical hacker, among other things since 2005, he had an opportunity to present in front of a live audience of 2,500 people and with tens of thousands across the world, on live and recorded streaming, how a hacker could break into almost any company with a fake LinkedIn request. You can view this video on his YouTube channel.

Terry has been delivering Internet safety for children, parents, and law enforcement since 2006. He believes that prevention, street proofing, and parent-child communication are the most effective ways to prevent a child from being abducted or falling victim to aggression and exploitation. Giving children the knowledge and practical skills they need to look after themselves is as important as teaching them to read and write. You can find out more on this at http://www.TheCourseOnInternetSafety.com.

He is a frequent contributor to media reportage about cybercrime, spying, security failures, Internet scams, and the real social network dangers that families and individuals face every day. He is acknowledged as a transformational leader, problem solver, and trusted advisor with a genuine talent for fostering positive and collaborative working relationships at all organizational levels.

Before leaving his job in 2011 to concentrate full time on Digital Locksmiths, Terry worked for a software giant, Novell. He joined this global software corporation that specializes in enterprise operating systems and identity, security, and systems management solutions to provide engineering support to the company's premium service customers consisting of up to 45,000 users and 600 servers all across the world.

I'd like to take a moment to thank Robert W. Beggs for generously taking me under his wing as a mentor back in 2004 and guiding me through the processes and pitfalls of working in this industry.

Now that I've matured as an industry specialist, I'm honored to be able to share some of my own learning and experiences with Rob and with his readers.

A very special thanks to my family, my wife, Franca, and our sons, David and Matthew, for their support, encouragement, patience, hugs, and unconditional love over the last few years.

Danang Heriyadi is an Indonesian computer security researcher, specialized in reverse engineering and software exploitation with more than five years of hands-on experience.

He is currently working at Hatsecure as an instructor for Advanced Exploit and Shellcode Development. As a researcher, he loves to share IT security knowledge through his blog at Fuzzerbyte (http://www.fuzzerbyte.com).

Tajinder Singh Kalsi is the cofounder and a technical evangelist at Virscent Technologies Pvt. Ltd., with more than six years of working experience in the field of IT. He commenced his career with Wipro as a technical associate and later became an IT consultant and trainer. As of now, he conducts seminars in colleges across India on topics such as information security, Android application development, website development, and cloud computing. At this point, he has covered more than 120 colleges and more than 9,000 students. Apart from imparting training, he also maintains a blog (www.virscent.com/blog), which explains various hacking tricks. He has earlier reviewed Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux, Joseph Muniz and Aamir Lakhani, Packt Publishing.

He can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tajinder.kalsi.tj or you can follow him on his website at www.tajinderkalsi.com.

Amit Pandurang Karpe works for FireEye, Inc., a global information security company, as a support engineer supporting their Asia Pacific customers. He stays in Singapore with his wife, Swatee, and son, Sparsh. He has been active in the open source community from his college days, especially in Pune, where he was able to organize various activities with the help of vibrant and thriving communities, such as PLUG, TechPune, IT-Milan, and Embedded Nirvana. He writes blog posts about technologies at http://www.amitkarpe.com.

He has worked on Rapid BeagleBoard Prototyping with MATLAB and Simulink, Dr. Xuewu Dai and Dr. Fei Qin, Packt Publishing. Currently, he is working on Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, Kevin Cardwell and Kali Linux CTF Blueprints, Cam Buchanan, both by Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank the open source community, without whom I couldn't have succeeded. A special thanks to the visionaries behind Kali Linux, who believed in open source and led by providing various examples. Also, many thanks to the community members and information security experts, who keep doing a great job, which makes Kali Linux a success.

I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team, editors, and the project coordinator, who kept doing the right things so that I was able to perform my job to the best of my abilities.

I would like to thank Pune Linux Users Group (PLUG), Embedded Nirvana group, and VSS friends, because of whom I was able to work on this project. I would also like to thank all my gurus, who helped me and guided me in this field—Dr. Vijay Gokhale, Sunil Dhadve, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Bharathi Subramanian, Mohammed Khasim, and Niyam Bhushan.

Finally, I would like to thank my family, my mother, my father, my brother, my son, and my wife, Swatee, without whose continuous support I could not have given my best efforts to this project.

Ashish Pandurang Karpe works as a system support associate with CompuCom-CSI Systems India Pvt. Ltd. He has been active in the open source community from his college days, where he was able to organize various activities with the help of vibrant and thriving communities such as PLUG and VITLUG.

I would first like to thank the open source community, without whose help, I wouldn't have been able to be here. I would like to thank my family, that is, Anuradha (mother), Pandurang (father), Sparsh (nephew), Amit (brother), and Swatee (sister-in-law). I would like to thank the Packt Publishing team, editors, and project coordinator who kept on doing the right things so that I was able to perform my job to the best of my abilities.

I would like thank Pune GNU/Linux Users Group (PLUG). I would also like to thank my guru, who helped me and guided me in this field—Dr. Vijay Gokhale.

Kunal Sehgal has been a part of the IT security industry since 2006 after specializing in Cyberspace security from Georgian College, Canada. He has been associated with various financial organizations. This has not only equipped him with an experience at a place where security is crucial, but it has also provided him with valuable expertise in this field. He can be reached at KunSeh.com.

Kunal currently heads IT security operations for the APAC region of one of the largest European banks. He has accumulated experience in diverse functions, ranging from vulnerability assessment to security governance and from risk assessment to security monitoring. A believer of keeping himself updated with the latest happenings in his field, he contributes to books, holds workshops, and writes blogs, all to promote security. He also holds a number of certifications to his name, including Backtrack's very own OSCP, and others such as CISSP, TCNA, CISM, CCSK, Security+, Cisco Router Security, ISO 27001 LA, and ITIL.

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