Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the importance of building your very own penetration testing lab on your computer. You learned how to use hypervisors to virtualize the hardware resources on a system, which can then be shared with multiple operating systems that are running at the same time on the same system. Furthermore, you have gained the skills needed to set up Kali Linux as a penetration testing virtual machine with vulnerable targets such as Metasploitable 2, as well as with vulnerable web application platforms such as the OWASP Juice Shop and OWASP BWA projects.

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 3, Setting Up for Advanced Hacking Techniques, you will learn how to set up a red team lab environment to perform advanced penetration...