Beginner’s Guide to Penetration Testing in 2023

Kickstart penetration testing in 2023: Beginner’s Bootcamp

Build your foundations for successful penetration testing with this course!

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Last Updated: 2024-12-20 10:12:58 English Course Type: Self Learning

Penetration testing skills to apply for a Job
Mindset needed to complete a penetration test
Network scanning with NMAP for internal and external networks
Basic exploitation and post exploitation skills using metasploit
Using linux terminal for information gathering
Using Burp Suite for web penetration testing
Basics of web application firewalls

Cybersecurity is a global problem and most businesses are willing to hire skilled cybersecurity consultants for their security, it all starts with the basics, in this course learn the basics of penetration testing covering all 5 phases of penetration testing. This course not only focuses on conceptual understandings but also a good amount of time has been given to building the mindset for being good at offensive security.

I've taught this course to more than 100 students in our previous cybersecurity training program and these are live recordings of those sessions with the practicals that I have performed for the students to grasp not only the concept in theory but also in practicality to make sure they can perform those practicals in a live environment(personal or allowed third-party assets.)

This course is for anybody willing to start their career in cybersecurity technical skills and it will provide a foundation which can help them slowly advance themselves.

We also use to conduct our weekly talks and one such recording of a talk has been added to the course to provide a sense of giving back to the community and interacting with fellow industry people.

Looking forward to interacting throughout the course!

Any updated linux distribution and setup as a virtual machine
Windows OS as primary OS or virtual machine
Internet connection

Basic understanding of networks
Basic understaning of linux commands
Ability to setup virtual machines

Section 1 : Pentesting 101 12 Lectures 00:00:14
Lecture 1 :
The 5 phases and mindset building. Preview
Lecture 2 :
Performing reconnaissance and real-world experience
Lecture 3 :
Linux for reconnaissance and basic regular expressions filtering
Lecture 4 :
Networking basics and scanning with Nmap
Lecture 5 :
Basics of SMB enumeration
Lecture 6 :
Mock pentration test
Lecture 7 :
A discussion of STUXNET - Talk
Lecture 8 :
Basics of exploitation and Post Exploitation
Lecture 9 :
Basics of custom tooling
Lecture 10 :
Basics of Web with BurpSuite
Lecture 11 :
Practical Exploitation of XSS and SQL Injection
Lecture 12 :
Basics of Web application firewall

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I am the co-founder of Bluefire redteam cybersecurity and we are a cybersecurity service provider, serving clients in 5 countries now with clients in most technology sectors, I have worked with several organisations to handle cybersecurity for them and led the offensive security team at Bluefire redteam along with the co-founder designation.