The Art Of Hacking

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About the course

Special Notices


We recommend that all delegates are familiar with the principles of TCP/IP networking and have a working knowledge of Windows operating systems. It is essential that delegates have a good practical ‘hands-on’ experience of the Linux command line and Linux utilities. We recommend our Understanding Linux (Linux Primer) QALXPR-1 course.

 

This course teaches the attendees a wealth of hacking techniques to compromise the security of various operating systems, networking devices and web application components. The course starts from the very basic and gradually builds up to the level where attendees can not only use the tools and techniques to hack various components involved in infrastructure and web hacking, but also walk away with a solid understanding of the concepts on which these tools work. The course comprises of 3 days of infrastructure hacking and 2 days of web hacking.

Intended Audience:

System Administrators, Web Developers, SOC analysts, Penetration testers, network engineers, security enthusiasts and anyone who wants to take their skills to next level.

This course familiarises the attendees with a wealth of tools and techniques needed to breach the security of web applications and infrastructures. The course starts from the very basic and gradually build up to the level where attendees can not only use the tools and techniques to hack various components involved in web application hacking, and infrastructure platforms, but also walk away with a solid understanding of the concepts on which these tools work. The course also covers the industry standards such as OWASP Top 10, PCI DSS and contain numerous real life examples to help the attendees understand the true impact of these vulnerabilities. This course is constantly updated on a regular basis to ensure that the latest exploits and vulnerabilities are available within the virtual labs taught in this course.

During the class, we will give you VPN access to our state-of-art hacklab which is hosted in our data centre in UK. Once you are connected to the lab, you will find all the relevant tools/VMs there. We also provide a dedicated Kali VM to each attendee on the hacklab.

 

IISP Skills Alignment

This course is aligned to the following Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) Skills. More details on the IISP skills framework can be found here.

D2, E3, C2


Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

CPD points can be claimed for GCT accredited courses at the rate of 1 point per hour of training for GCHQ accredited courses (up to a maximum of 15 points).

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