Certified in Advance Penetration Testing v3 Course Overview

Target Audience for Certified advanced Penetration Tester

The Certified Advanced Penetration Tester course equips IT professionals with elite hacking techniques and methodologies.

• Information Security Analysts
• Penetration Testers
• Ethical Hackers
• Network Security Engineers
• Cybersecurity Consultants
• IT Security Managers
• Security Architects
• Systems Administrators looking to specialize in security
• Security Auditors
• Computer Forensics Analysts
• Vulnerability Researchers
• Cybersecurity Enthusiasts
• IT Professionals seeking to advance their knowledge in security
• Military and Law Enforcement personnel in cyber divisions
• Cybersecurity Educators and Trainers

Learning Objectives - What you will Learn in this Certified advanced Penetration Tester?

Introduction to Learning Outcomes

The Certified Advanced Penetration Tester course is designed to equip students with in-depth knowledge and practical skills in penetrating and securing networks. It covers a comprehensive range of topics from setting up a lab environment to advanced exploitation techniques.

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

• Setting Up a Penetration Testing Lab: Students will learn to install and configure tools like VMware, Kali Linux, and network settings essential for creating a safe environment to practice penetration testing skills.
• Understanding Penetration Testing Frameworks and Standards: Participants will become familiar with the methodologies and legal frameworks guiding ethical hacking, including intelligence gathering and threat modeling.
• Mastering Information Discovery and Scanning Techniques: Learners will acquire the ability to use tools for discovering devices, gathering DNS and WHOIS information, and understanding various scanning methods with tools such as Nmap and Shodan.
• Vulnerability Assessment and Zero-Day Discovery: Students will learn to identify and assess system vulnerabilities using tools like Nessus and OpenVAS, and explore research methods for uncovering zero-day vulnerabilities.
• Exploitation Techniques and Metasploit Framework: Learners will gain hands-on experience in exploiting vulnerabilities using Metasploit, understanding payloads, and managing post-exploitation activities such as creating meterpreter sessions and dumping password hashes.
• Privilege Escalation and Password Cracking: This course will teach various techniques to escalate privileges on compromised systems and crack passwords with tools like John the Ripper and OphCrack.
• Bypassing Antivirus and Maintaining Access: Participants will learn strategies to encode payloads to evade antivirus detection and methods to maintain persistent access to compromised systems using backdoors and tunnels.
• Advanced Sniffing and Network Attacks: Students will become adept at using tools like Wireshark for sniffing network traffic and executing network-level attacks including ARP poisoning and DNS spoofing.
• Web Application and Wireless Penetration Testing: The course covers penetrating web applications using tools like BurpSuite and exploiting wireless networks' security, including cracking WEP/WPA/WPA2 encryptions.
• Reporting and Ethics: Learners will understand the importance of proper reporting, evidence management, and the ethical considerations of penetration testing, ensuring they can communicate their findings effectively and responsibly.