Gray Hat Hacking 3rd Edition Review

I have just finished reading Gray Hat Hacking: The Ethical Hacker's Handbook 3rd Edition by: Shon Harris. The book has been updated and expanded with new content and expended chapters and techniques.

The book starts out explaining what "Ethical Hacking" is, and what is Responsible Disclosure. You also learn about conducting and managing a penetration test in a professional setting.

Then an exploration of BackTrack 4 R2 is introduced. This is the defacto standard in security and penetration testing used by professionals. The BackTrack chapter could have been longer, but this book isn't designed as a BackTrack manual. Metasploit is also introduced. I think these are the best chapters in the book on using the Metapretor Shell and scripting Metasploit. It goes into real in-depth knowledge on using Metasploit to exploit the systems.
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The book teaches an introduction on computer programming for security professionals, which is always needed I think. Programming teaches you how to think logically and you can follow what the source code may be trying to accomplish.

The chapters on Malware Analyst is excellent. It builds on the previous chapters of programming and exploitation, which is great. You learn about capturing malware and how to run analysis software to figure out how the malware works and how to possible defend against it.