Metasploit framework can also be called as ‘Swiss Army knife ’ of penetration testers as it provides multiple exploit, customization, easy to redevelop according to the requirements of the system . To secure our system and prevent it from any type of threats , we should perform the penetration testing.
3. Penetration Testing
“ Penetration testing
or pentesting involves
simulating real attacks to
assess the risk associated
with potential security
breaches ”
4. Need of Penetration Testing
Companies invest millions of dollars in security program
to protect critical infrastructure
to prevent data breaches
to identify security flaws
to access vulnerabilities
A Penetration Test is one of the most effective way to
identify weaknesses and deficiencies in these system.
6. Metasploit
Metasploit is a free, open source penetration testing
framework currently acquired by Rapid7
Current versions are written using the Ruby language
World's largest database of well tested exploits
Open source platform for writing security tools and exploits
Create and execute more advanced attack
7. History
October of 2003, v1.0 of the Metasploit
Framework was created by H.D.Moore
Earlier coded in Perl
Later completely re-coded in Ruby
Acquired by Rapid7 in 2009 under some terms & conditions
Remains open source.
15. Being open source framework, it has got huge
community support. In order to face new security
challenges Metasploit is frequently updated for zero-day
vulnerabilities. More and more exploits will be made
available to its database for users. Upcoming versions
will be more efficient, user friendly, GUI-based, web-
based with customising options along with its
interactive console.
Future scope
16. Metasploit framework can also be called as ‘Swiss
Army knife ’ of penetration testers as it provides multiple
exploit, customisable, easy to redevelop according to the
requirements of the system . To secure our system and
prevent it from any type of threats , we should perform
the penetration testing.
Conclusion
17. References
1) David Kennedy, Jim O’Gorman, Devon Kearns and Mati Aharoni , ‘
METASPLOIT-The Penetration Tester’s Guide ’, No Starch Press.
2) Georgia Weidman, ‘ Penetration Testing ‘, No Starch Press
3) Karthik Ranganath, ‘ Instant Metasploit Starter ‘, PACKT Publishing
4) David Maynor, K. K. Mookhey, ‘ Metasploit Toolkit ’,Syngress Publishing
5) www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines
6) https://www.metasploit.com/
7) https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/introduction