Questions and Topics We Can Help You To Answer:
Paper Instructions:

You will need to write a 4 page, APA style research paper covering the following:
• Penetration testing methodology overview
• Host discovery
• External host enumeration
• Exploit research
o This section must also include payload generation
o This section must also detail the difference between reverse/bind shells
• Script modification
• Exploitation
• Internal host enumeration
• Privilege Escalation
o In the event you do not land on the host as a high privilege account
You cannot use screenshots in this research paper, but you can provide example commands
and provide insight on what actions those commands are performing. For each topic you
should detail a high-level overview of the importance of that phase, and how it contributes
to the overall penetration test. You should also detail one or two tools per topic that
contribute to that activity.
The paper must be in proper APA format, to include the following at the end of the 5 pages:


• References