The utilization of VMs to understand the principles of ethical hacking has becom

The utilization of VMs to understand the principles of ethical hacking has become common within cybersecurity. In this assignment, we will walk through the basics of vulnerability analysis and show the ease with which a vulnerability can be exploited to gain root access of a system.
The director of IT has asked you to present your mitigation strategy at a conference. As usual, your meeting was hastily increased in scope to include a training class for the C-suite with regard to common attacks used against the company in the last 30 days. Create a video presentation outlining how to gain access to the system. Provide a brief summary on the mitigation techniques you would employ to secure the system from privilege escalation and assume upgrading and replacement is not an option. Define the taxonomy of attacks by providing a definition, summary, and categorization of the following attack families:
Buffer overflow
Privilege escalation
Rootkits
Trojans
Backdoors
Viruses
Return-oriented programming
Common social engineering attacks