Contents: 1. Introduction to practical security and performance testing 2. Getting organized with initial audit of tnetworkwrk 3. Locking down the infrastructure: internet, wi-fi, wired, VPN, WAN, and the core 4. Locking down and optimizing the Windows client 5. Server patterns 6. Testing for security flaws using penetration testing 7. Using Wireshark and TCP Dump to visualize traffic 8…