Modern Penetration Testing: A Practical Guide to Advanced Hacking, Exploitation, and Reporting

By Wright Palmer

Modern Penetration Testing: A Practical Guide to Advanced Hacking, Exploitation, and Reporting

Modern Penetration Testing is the definitive field manual for today's ethical hackers, red teamers, and cybersecurity professionals seeking real-world offensive security mastery. This comprehensive, hands-on guide takes you deep into the mechanics of modern attack techniques, step-by-step exploitation workflows, and professional reporting practices-equipping you with the skills needed to simulate advanced adversaries, uncover critical weaknesses, and deliver value through actionable, high-impact assessments.
You won't just learn the theory behind attack surfaces-you'll walk through actual recon, exploitation, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and post-exploitation scenarios that mirror real-world conditions. Whether you're targeting web applications, APIs, internal networks, Active Directory environments, cloud platforms, wireless networks, IoT devices, or modern APIs, this book gives you the tools, methodology, and technical depth needed to operate confidently and effectively.
You'll master everything from abusing misconfigured IAM roles in AWS to extracting firmware from IoT hardware, from bypassing WAFs and modern defenses to generating professional pentest reports that communicate business risk clearly and effectively. Each chapter builds your skills with authentic code examples, tool usage, scripts, logs, and evidence collection that reinforce practical knowledge and prepare you for engagements across any industry.
Whether you're an aspiring pentester, experienced red team operator, or a blue teamer trying to understand how attackers think, this book will elevate your capability to perform impactful, ethical offensive operations with discipline and precision.
Step into the attacker's mindset. Execute with skill. Report with clarity.
Grab your copy of Modern Penetration Testing now and take your offensive security career to the next level.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FJL9GXJG
• ISBN13: 9798293563715
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"