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This book is a reference manual with common commands and charts frequently used by penetration testers. Even though I am a novice security professional, my training during Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) training helps me understand a fair portion of the sections and commands within those sections. The book’s font is small so there is a lot of information it although it is physically small. Of the sections and commands which are new to me, there is invaluable information which I will be exploring during my continuation of security training, including (OSCP). The first section relates to *nix operating systems. The majority of Linux network commands listed use flag settings and combinations which I haven’t seen in most cases. A large portion of the book is dedicated to Windows commands. I have used some of the commands, but domain-related commands, essential for penetration testing, I have not yet used. Powershell is well-referenced, being the hip, new way to interact with the Windows environment.

Some commands listed are absolute gold-examples are creating a Windows native port forwarding, something I did not know possible. There’s a nice script to acquire the permissions of all services executables, important for privilege escalation in Windows. Important persistence commands for both Linux and Windows are listed. There are methods to perform screen shots and video of remote users. This could be useful to demonstrate total ownage to a management-type. Showing them working on their own computer gets the point across emphatically.

From a novice penetration tester perspective, I feel these is likely benefit to this book and I will keep it handy at all times. It can be used to supplement a repository of reference material.
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