Glen D. Singh - The Ultimate Kali Linux Book: Perform advanced penetration testing using Nmap, Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, and Empire, 2nd Edition

Perform advanced penetration testing using Nmap, Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, and Empire

Glen D. Singh

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I would like to dedicate this book to the people in our society who have always worked hard in their field of expertise and who have not been recognized for their hard work, commitment, sacrifices, and ideas, but who, most importantly, believed in themselves when no one else did. This book is for you. Always have faith in yourself. With commitment, hard work, and focus, anything can be possible. Never give up, because great things take time.

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity instructor and an InfoSec author. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics, and enterprise networking. He is a holder of many certifications, including CEH, CHFI, PAWSP, and 3xCCNA (in CyberOps, Security, and Routing and Switching).

Glen loves teaching and mentoring others and sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books that focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, implementing security solutions, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game-changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.

I would like to thank God, the preserver of the universe, for all His divine grace and guidance. I would also like to thank Rahul Nair, Sayali Pingale, Rahul D'souza, Neil D'mello, and the wonderful team at Packt Publishing, who have provided amazing support throughout this journey. To the technical reviewer, Rishalin Pillay, thank you for your outstanding contribution to making this an amazing book.

Rishalin Pillay has over 12 years of cybersecurity experience and has acquired a vast amount of skills consulting for Fortune 500 companies while taking part in projects, performing tasks in network security design, implementation, and vulnerability analysis. He holds many certifications that demonstrate his knowledge and expertise in the cybersecurity field from vendors such as ISC2, Cisco, Juniper, Check Point, Microsoft, and CompTIA. Rishalin currently works at a large software company as a senior cybersecurity engineer.

I would like to thank Glen for allowing me to review this book. To the publication team and the greater Packt team thank you for giving me the opportunity to review this book. It is always a pleasure working with you.

To my wife, Rubleen, and my son, Kai, thank you for all the support. Without you, life would be really dull I love you.