Kumar - Learning Nessus for Penetration Testing

Himanshu Kumar is a very passionate security specialist with multiple years of experience as a security researcher. He has hands-on experience in almost all domains of Information Security specializing in Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing. He enjoys writing scripts to exploit vulnerabilities. He is active on different security forums, such as webappsec and securityfocus where he loves responding to different security problems.

Every book goes in many hands before it is published. The real credit goes to their work which makes publishing a book possible. Without the efforts being put in by the Packt editing team, the Packt publishing team, technical editors, and reviewers, this would have not been possible. I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to the Packt team Yogesh Dalvi, Sageer Parkar, Deepika Singh, Kevin Colaco, Novina Kewalramani, Sumeet Sawant, and the reviewers Martin MacLorrain Jr. and Veerendra G.G.

I would also like to thank my friends Ryan, John, Robert, Umesh, Nitin, Sarika, and Elliana.

My gratitude is also due to those who didn't play any direct role in publishing this book but extended their full support to make sure I was able to write this book. Thanks to my family.

Special thanks to my wife for helping me to make this possible.

Veerendra G.G. is a passionate Information Security researcher. He has been working in the Information Security domain for more than six years. His expertise includes vulnerability research, malware analysis, IDS/IPS signatures, exploit writing, and penetration testing. He has published a number of security advisories in a wide variety of applications and has also written Metasploit modules. He has been an active contributor to a number of open source applications that include OpenVAS, Snort, and Metasploit.

Currently, he works for SecPod Technologies Pvt Ltd as a Technical Lead and he has a Computer Science Engineering degree from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum, India.

I would like to thank my friends, family, and the amazing people at SecPod for their unwavering support.

Martin MacLorrain Jr. has been a Navy Veteran for more than 10 years and has over 15 years' experience in Information Technology. His technical background includes Information Assurance Management, Vulnerability Assessment, Incident Response, Network Forensics, and Network Analysis, and he is fully qualified as DoD IAT/IAM/IASE level III. He is currently an independent consultant providing guidance to executive level personnel and also works in the trench training engineers and technicians for DoD, Federal Agencies, and Fortune 500 companies. When he spends time away from cyber security solutions architecture, he enjoys coaching in a youth football league and attending masonic functions. For more information about Martin, go to martimac.info.

I would like to thank my good friend and great web developer 1dafo0L for keeping me motivated through out this process.