This course is a complete guide to help you get up and running with your cybersecurity career. You will learn the key tenets and fundamentals of ethical hacking and security penetration testing techniques. You will also explore professional networking and security topics, including an introduction to the world of white hat hacking, reconnaissance, Kali Linux, exploitation, and post-exploitation techniques. This course provides step-by-step real-life scenarios. You will see firsthand how an ethical hacker performs initial reconnaissance of a victim, how to assess systems, network security controls, and security posture.

With over 10 hours of training that includes live discussions, demos, whiteboard instruction and screencasts, Security Penetration Testing Live Lessons provides expert insights of the methodologies used to assess and compromise a network. It covers the legal aspects of ethical hacking and the associated risks. This course additionally reviews many different tools that can be used to penetrate a wired or wireless network and the systems within that network. Also covered are numerous types of attacks, along with security evasion and post exploitation techniques. You will additionally learn the art of social engineering, with special coverage of tools like the social engineering tool kit (SET), Metasploit, and Maltego. You’ll find guidelines on how to write penetration testing reports, and learn how to plan and organize the them.

This course provides supplemental material to reinforce some of the critical concepts and techniques learned, scripts to help you build your own hacking environment, and examples of real-life penetration testing reports. This material can be accessed at theartofhacking.org.

While there are a variety of ethical hacking and cybersecurity certifications out there, this course is meant to introduce people to the concepts behind ethical hacking and penetration testing and is certification agnostic.

Topics include:

Lesson 1: Overview of Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing

Lesson 2: Kali Linux

Lesson 3: Passive Reconnaissance

Lesson 4: Active Reconnaissance

Lesson 5: Hacking Web Applications

Lesson 6: Hacking User Credentials

Lesson 7; Hacking Databases

Lesson 8: Hacking Networking Devices

Lesson 9: Fundamentals of Wireless Hacking

Lesson 10: Buffer Overflows

Lesson 11: Powershell Attacks

Lesson 12: Evasion and Post Exploitation Techniques

Lesson 13: Social Engineering

Lesson 14: Maintaining Persistence, Pivoting, and Data Exfiltration

Lesson 15: Writing Penetration Testing Reports

Resources:
This is part of The Art of Hacking Series. Other titles in this series are:

Wireless Networks, IoT, and Mobile Devices Hacking (The Art of Hacking Series)

https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/wireless-networks-iot/9780134854632/

Learn How To

• This course will provide step-by-step guidance about ethical hacking, penetration testing, and security posture assessment.
• Provides an easy to use and cost effective means to learn the various concepts associated with many different leading-edge offensive security skills in the industry.
• Provides multimedia tutorials that users can apply to real world scenarios.

Who Should Take This Course

This course serves as comprehensive guide for any network and security professional who is starting a career in ethical hacking and penetration testing. It also can help individuals preparing for the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), the Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), and any other ethical hacking certification. This course helps any cyber security professional that want to learn the skills required to becoming a professional ethical hacker or that want to learn more about general hacking methodologies and concepts.

Course Requirements

Requires basic knowledge of Internet and networking technology.

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