Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the importance of discovering security vulnerabilities within an organization and its assets. You also gained hands-on experience and skills with using various tools such as Nessus, Nmap, and Metasploit to perform security assessments on systems. You also discovered how various tools and techniques can be used to easily identify security flaws on web applications.

I hope this chapter has been informative for you and will prove helpful in your journey as an aspiring penetration tester, learning how to simulate real-world cyberattacks to discover security vulnerabilities and perform exploitation using Kali Linux. In the next chapter, Chapter 7, Understanding Network Penetration Testing, we will focus on how to use various techniques and strategies when performing network penetration testing.