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  Wireshark Wireshark Having a solid foundation in Networking is essential to becoming a good penetration tester.  Wireshark is the world’s best network analyzer tool. It is an open-source software that enables you to inspect real-time data on a live network. Wireshark can dissect packets of data into frames and segments giving you detailed information about the bits and bytes in a packet. Wireshark supports all major network protocols and media types. Wireshark can also be used as a packet sniffing tool if you are in a public network. Wireshark will have access to the entire network connected to a router. Wireshark Packet Capture Sites like Facebook and Twitter are encrypted now, thanks to https. This means that even though you can capture packets from a victim computer in transit to Facebook, those packets will be encrypted. Still, being able to capture data packets in realtime is an important utility for a penetration tester. Nmap Nmap is the first tool you will come across...

25% of IT workers don’t enforce security policies 14% of IT workers are consumed with Identity and Access Management (IAM), spending at least an hour per day on routine IAM tasks, according to 1Password. IAM continues to be a significant productivity bog for IT and employees alike, with 57% of IT workers resetting employee passwords up to five times per week, and 15% doing so at least 21 times per week. Shadow IT issues IAM is often used to detect shadow IT, and 1Password’s survey revealed that it’s largely successful. Four in five workers report always following their company’s IT policy, meaning that just 20% of workers are driving all shadow IT activity in the enterprise. These employees don’t act out of malice but rather a drive to get more done, with 49% citing productivity as their top reason for circumventing IT’s rules. “The shadow IT picture is more complicated than many think,” said Jeff Shiner, CEO, 1Password. “Most of us follow the rules, but a small group of employees tryi...