Security Penetration Testing (The Art of Hacking Series)

MP4 | Video: AVC 1280x720 | Audio: AAC 44KHz 2ch | Duration: 4.5 Hours | 6.54 GB

Genre: eLearning | Language: English

This course is a complete guide to help you get up and running with your cybersecurity career. You will learn the key tenets and basics 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, and exploitation. This course provides step-by-step real-life scenarios. You will see first hand how an ethical hacker performs initial reconnaissance of a victim and how to assess systems and network security controls 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 and wireless network and the systems within that network. The title also covers 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, Maltego, and many more. After that you’ll take a look at guidelines for how to write a penetration testing report, with instructions for how to plan and organize those reports examples of reports including several best practices.

This course provides supplemental material to reinforce some of the critical concepts and techniques that the reader has learned and provides practice questions to assess their understanding of the topics. This material can be found 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