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Penetration Testing Essential Training

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Penetration testing is an in-demand skill for cybersecurity professionals, and this course provides a solid hands-on overview of popular pen testing tools and techniques.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Establishing a solid foundation to progress into a career of penetration testing
  • What you should know
  • Disclaimer
1. What Is Pen Testing?
  • Pen testing overview
  • The cyber kill chain
  • The MITRE ATT&CK repository
2. Pen Testing Tools
  • Scanning networks with Nmap
  • A netcat refresher
  • Capturing packets with tcpdump
  • Work with netstat, nbtstat, and arp
  • Scripting with PowerShell
  • Extending PowerShell with Nishang
  • What is Active Directory?
  • Analyze Active Directory with BloodHound
3. Bash Scripting
  • Refreshing your Bash skills
  • Controlling the flow in a script
  • Using functions in bash
4. Python Scripting
  • Refresh your Python skills
  • Use the system functions
  • Use networking functions
  • Work with websites
  • Access SQLite databases
  • Using Scapy to work with packets
  • Leveraging OpenAI for testing
5. Kali and Metasploit
  • A Kali refresher
  • Fuzzing with Spike
  • Information gathering with Legion
  • Using Metasploit
  • Scan targets with GVM
6. Web Testing
  • Approach web testing
  • Test websites with Burp Suite
  • Check web servers with Nikto
  • Fingerprint web servers
  • Web server penetration using sqlmap
7. Understand Exploit Code
  • Exploit a target
  • Finding caves for code injection
  • Understand code injection
  • Understand command injection
  • Understand buffer overflows
  • Password spraying Active Directory
  • Find exploit code
Conclusion
  • What's next

Taught by

Malcolm Shore

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