SKILL LEVEL
Beginner
DURATION
40 hours
CERTIFICATION
After Completion
LANGUAGE
English
OVERVIEW
Work through the complete penetration testing lifecycle: planning, scoping, vulnerability scanning, exploitation, and reporting against legal and compliance requirements. Built for professionals who already have a security foundation and want hands-on offensive-security skills that map directly to red-team and consulting work.
IDEAL FOR
You have 3-4 years of hands-on security experience and want to move into offensive security
You're preparing for red-team or penetration-testing consulting work
You hold Security+ or equivalent and want the next practical step
NOT FOR
You're new to IT security — start with Security+ first
What You’ll Learn
01
Scope and plan a penetration test within legal and compliance boundaries
02
Run vulnerability scans and interpret results to prioritise exploitation targets
03
Execute attacks against networks, applications, and cloud infrastructure in a lab environment
04
Write a penetration test report that a client's security team can act on
What You’ll Achieve
Leave with clarity, practical tools and a plan for what's next
01
Plan, scope, and perform information gathering as part of a penetration test
02
Perform attacks aligned to legal and compliance requirements
03
Execute each phase of a penetration test methodically
04
Communicate findings in a report suitable for technical and non-technical stakeholders
Selected Programme Modules