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Privilege Escalation Techniques: Learn the art of exploiting Windows and Linux systems
Learn how to escalate your privileges on Windows and Linux systems
This book is a comprehensive guide on the privilege escalation process for Windows and Linux systems and is designed to be practical and hands-on by providing the reader with real world exercises and scenarios in the form of vulnerable environments and virtual machines.
Key Features
Privilege escalation is a vital element of the attack life cycle and is a major determinant in the overall success of a penetration test. The importance of privilege escalation in the penetration testing process cannot be overstated or overlooked. Developing your privilege escalation skills will mark you out as a good penetration tester. The ability to enumerate information from a target system and utilize this information to identify potential misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that can be exploited to elevate privileges is an essential skill set for any penetration tester.
The book uses virtual environments that you can download to test and run tools and techniques. Each chapter will feature an exploitation challenge in the form of pre-built virtual machines (VMs). As you progress, you will learn how to enumerate and exploit vulnerabilities on Linux or Windows systems in order to elevate your privileges.
By the end of this book, you will have gained the skills you need to be able to perform local enumeration in order to identify privilege escalation vectors on Windows and Linux systems and how to exploit them in order to elevate your privileges.
What you will learn
Who this book is for?
This Windows and Linux privilege escalation book is for intermediate-level cybersecurity students and pentesters who are interested in learning how to perform various privilege escalation techniques on Windows and Linux systems, which includes exploiting bugs, design flaws, and more. An intermediate-level understanding of Windows and Linux systems along with fundamental cybersecurity knowledge is expected.
Table of Contents
This book is a comprehensive guide on the privilege escalation process for Windows and Linux systems and is designed to be practical and hands-on by providing the reader with real world exercises and scenarios in the form of vulnerable environments and virtual machines.
Key Features
Privilege escalation is a vital element of the attack life cycle and is a major determinant in the overall success of a penetration test. The importance of privilege escalation in the penetration testing process cannot be overstated or overlooked. Developing your privilege escalation skills will mark you out as a good penetration tester. The ability to enumerate information from a target system and utilize this information to identify potential misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that can be exploited to elevate privileges is an essential skill set for any penetration tester.
The book uses virtual environments that you can download to test and run tools and techniques. Each chapter will feature an exploitation challenge in the form of pre-built virtual machines (VMs). As you progress, you will learn how to enumerate and exploit vulnerabilities on Linux or Windows systems in order to elevate your privileges.
By the end of this book, you will have gained the skills you need to be able to perform local enumeration in order to identify privilege escalation vectors on Windows and Linux systems and how to exploit them in order to elevate your privileges.
What you will learn
Who this book is for?
This Windows and Linux privilege escalation book is for intermediate-level cybersecurity students and pentesters who are interested in learning how to perform various privilege escalation techniques on Windows and Linux systems, which includes exploiting bugs, design flaws, and more. An intermediate-level understanding of Windows and Linux systems along with fundamental cybersecurity knowledge is expected.
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340 pages, Paperback
Published November 25, 2021
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December 1, 2021
I'm a red team instructor and got a preview copy of the book to review.
I am thoroughly impressed.
The subject of the book is not what many consider introductory for cybersecurity. But, Alexis Ahmed does an amazing job breaking down the concepts to their lowest level to make this book as accessible as possible to the reader.
This makes the book far more than a field guide. And, while including instructions and walkthrough for setting up labs and the tools used throughout the book, it is far more than just an introduction.
Anyone who reads and completes the labs in this book should be quite well prepared to start a penetration testing journey. With this knowledge and these skills in hand, the next step is repetition and mastery.
I am thoroughly impressed.
The subject of the book is not what many consider introductory for cybersecurity. But, Alexis Ahmed does an amazing job breaking down the concepts to their lowest level to make this book as accessible as possible to the reader.
This makes the book far more than a field guide. And, while including instructions and walkthrough for setting up labs and the tools used throughout the book, it is far more than just an introduction.
Anyone who reads and completes the labs in this book should be quite well prepared to start a penetration testing journey. With this knowledge and these skills in hand, the next step is repetition and mastery.
April 16, 2026
Very straight forward book for penetration testers. Actually it takes every step into the privilage escalation vector in Windows and Linux, also setting up the lab!
Great book from Alexis!!!👏👏👏
Great book from Alexis!!!👏👏👏
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