Privilege Escalation, OWASP, and Advanced Scripting

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Explore advanced cybersecurity techniques, including privilege escalation, scripting, and the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn to create reliable Bash, PowerShell, and Python scripts, automate workflows, and analyze vulnerabilities in real scenarios. The course starts with scripting fundamentals and progresses to advanced techniques, enabling you to build modular, efficient scripts for offensive and defensive security tasks. You will also study OWASP vulnerabilities and learn safe exploitation and mitigation methods. Capstone labs simulate real-world scenarios, including red and blue team exercises, incident response, and threat detection. This intermediate course is ideal for IT professionals, cybersecurity enthusiasts, and ethical hackers with basic scripting and system knowledge. By the end of the course, you will be able to design and execute advanced scripts, exploit and mitigate web vulnerabilities, perform privilege escalation, and complete comprehensive red and blue team exercises.