So many topics were covered in this chapter, from information gathering to privilege escalation. I tried to cover the most important ones and then get straight to the point without the nitty-gritty details in order to maximize the topics I could cover in a single chapter.

What you learned in this chapter is just half the story regarding penetration testing. In fact, in this chapter, we just covered network-based assessment. In the next chapter, we will cover web-application-based penetration testing.