Reconnaissance, Scanning and now Gaining Access to a system. This phase involves cracking passwords and escalating privileges. After all, you need to acquire authentication credentials in order to gain access to a device.

Gaining Access:

An attacker can gain access either locally or remotely. Discuss the four main methods used in remote attacks: exploiting a process or program, exploiting a vulnerability in a supporting system, exploiting a TCP or UDP service , and exploiting a user.

Privilege Escalation:

Research the various way this step could be accomplished in linux and/or Windows systems

Scanners:

Discuss the number of automated tools available to detect problems with source code, and running applications.