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Glen D. Singh
Glen D. Singh
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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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During the course of this chapter, you have learned how threat actors use C2 operations to maintain and control multiple compromised hosts simultaneously. Furthermore, you have discovered how cybersecurity professionals such as penetration testers and even red teaming professionals can use C2 operations to improve their security testing and emulate real-world cyber-attacks on their target's network. You have gained the skills for setting up Empire 4 using Kali Linux and have learned how to perform post-exploitation tasks on a compromised system. Additionally, you have discovered how to work with Starkiller as a graphical interface for Empire 4 to simplify many tasks on the Empire server.

I hope this chapter has been informative for you and is helpful in your journey as an aspiring penetration tester learning how to simulate real-world cyber-attacks to discover security vulnerabilities and perform exploitation using Kali Linux. In the next chapter, Chapter 13, Advanced...

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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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