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Cybersecurity Careers: Become a Penetration Tester

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Overview

Syllabus

Introduction
  • How do I get into pentesting?
1. Self-Assessment
  • What is pentesting?
  • Interaction skills
  • Technical skills
2. Fundamentals
  • OS fundamentals
  • Risk fundamentals
  • Web and network fundamentals
3. Ethical Hacking Techniques
  • Penetration testing stages
  • Linux command-line fundamentals
  • Tools of the trade required for pentesting
4. Get Experience
  • Hands-on experience
  • Showing home lab as experience
Conclusion
  • What are you waiting for?

Taught by

Tennisha Martin

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4.6 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 349 ratings

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