Practice and real world application is critical to learning how to effectively conduct penetration tests. Adaptive Penetration Testing is an immersive course that will provide practical experience and a solid framework for conducting in-depth security assessments. You will spend the majority of your time in a fully operational lab environment, overcoming the real-world obstacles you will face in today's enterprise environments. We will cover tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) successful penetration testers use to provide comprehensive and efficient security assessments in a variety of target environments. Methods presented are based on TTPs consistently being refined by our penetration testers' operational experience.
While toolsets don't necessarily make or break an assessment, utilizing the right tools for the job is often the difference maker for an effective penetration test. We will walk you through various commercial and open-source tools for identifying attack vectors and infiltrating a simulated enterprise environment. We will cover both network and web testing tools and frameworks such as Cobalt Strike, Metasploit, Nessus, Nmap, OWASP-ZAP, SQLMap, and a host of various tools that have been developed by Veris Group testers, including the Veil Framework, PowerUp and EyeWitness. These tools will enable you to collaboratively conduct penetration tests efficiently and effectively against variable target environments. You will also overcome obstacles, practice modern attack techniques and learn how to use advanced tactics to force-multiply penetration tests.
At the conclusion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Use techniques necessary to perform thorough, operationally focused network penetration tests
- Apply practical skills following numerous exercises, including:
-Identifying vulnerable hosts and services
-Exploiting users and systems
-Pivoting and conducting lateral movement through an IT infrastructure
- Use commercial / open-source toolsets and frameworks to efficiently assess traditional networks and non-traditional targets
- Leverage effective soft-skills, assessment management techniques and document templates to facilitate better run assessments
- Reference an electronic PDF job aid, complete with navigation, during actual assessments
To get the most from this course, participants should have at least one to two years of technical information security experience and be familiar with common administrative tools in Windows and Linux.
A custom version of the latest Kali Linux image will be provided to participants -- all exercises will be able to be performed from this virtual machine. Participants will need to bring their own laptop with:
- Wired network adapter
- 4GBs of RAM
- Ability to run a virtual machine (VMWare Player, Workstation, Fusion)
