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Published inFeb 2022
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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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In this chapter, you learned about the fundamentals of wireless networking and the security mechanisms that are used to provide a layer of security to users and organizations who implement wireless networking within their companies. Furthermore, you now know how to compromise WPA, WPA2, WPA3, personal, and enterprise networks. Additionally, you have learned how to perform an AP-less attack, which allows a penetration tester to retrieve the password of a probing client where the desired access point is not present within the vicinity. Lastly, you learned how to create wireless honeypots, which act as evil twin and rogue access points.

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 cyberattacks to discover security vulnerabilities and perform exploitation using Kali Linux. In the next chapter, Chapter 14, Performing Client-Side Attacks – Social Engineering, you will...

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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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