
Explore the course overview of offensive security with ai agents, detailing the flow, rules of engagement, safety techniques, and the integration of traditional hacking fundamentals with ai-assisted testing.
Establish firm ethical and legal boundaries for offensive security by securing explicit authorization, following rules of engagement, and case studies illustrating responsible disclosure and consent.
Explain rules of engagement for offensive security with ai agents, detailing scope, authorization, evidence, liability, and third-party risk across pen testing, scanning, bug bounty, and research.
Draft a traditional ROE using NIST, PCI DSS, and SANS templates, detailing scope, authorization, time windows, and liabilities, now enhanced by AI agents with human in the loop.
Master the engagement playbook for safe, defensible and reproducible testing by following a pre-engagement checklist, ROE, and six phases from reconnaissance to post-engagement reporting, with ai-assisted reconnaissance and human-in-the-loop exploitation.
Design an ai-driven engagement playbook for an offensive security exercise, define the rules of engagement and scope, coordinate reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, and post-exploitation steps, and produce a structured audit-ready report.
Learn passive OSINT techniques using WHOIS, RDAP, certificate transparency, and passive DNS to map public infrastructure, subdomains, and history with AI-assisted orchestration.
Learn Google dorking and public source discovery to uncover information with operators like site, in URL, in title, and file type, then automate passive OSINT with AI prompts across sources.
Enumerate subdomains by combining passive techniques (certificate transparency, Google site searches) with active probing (amass, subfinder, dnsx, httpx) to reveal and validate exposed subdomains.
Learn how to perform website reconnaissance and fingerprinting, gathering server, TLS, and header data, analyzing HTML, CMS, and assets, and using AI prompts and tools for safe passive-to-active probing.
Learn how sitemap.xml and robots.txt guide reconnaissance by revealing urls, disallowed paths, and admin or backup endpoints. Leverage ai agents to automate extraction, prioritize targets, and apply defensive noindex practices.
Learn to build an automated reconnaissance pipeline that gathers domain intelligence, enumerates subdomains, performs fingerprinting (HTML, TLS, JA3), DNS resolution, and scoring, with Python code and AI agent contrasts.
Simulate early stage reconnaissance on a target domain using robot.txt and sitemap.xml, identifying sensitive endpoints via metadata reconnaissance and OSINT techniques, and triage with automated and manual testing.
Learn network scanning techniques to identify open ports, running services, and vulnerabilities using mass scan, Nmap, Rust scan, and ZMap in a safe lab environment.
Explore vulnerability scanners like Nessus and OpenVAS, and compare credentialed versus non-credentialed scans. See how AI agents normalize results, prioritize vulnerabilities, and enable remediation with SOAR integration.
Explore Metasploit, an open-source exploitation framework for penetration testing, and see its modular architecture, exploits, payloads, auxiliaries, and how AI agents via prompts augment exploitation workflows in isolated labs.
Learn to normalize, deduplicate, and enrich post scan findings, then prioritize with AI-driven risk scoring and validation. Automate with prompts to speed, ensure consistency, and enable reporter outputs.
Learn to distinguish true and false positives in vulnerability scanning, perform manual verification, and leverage AI agents for safe, non-destructive validation of findings.
Explore Burp Suite scanner to crawl and audit ginandjuice.shop, identify vulnerabilities like SQL injection, review payloads and remediation strategies, and generate actionable findings.
Run targeted vulnerability scans against a lab host using nmap, mass scan, and smb client; consolidate outputs into a csv and prioritize the top 10 findings with justifications and recommendations.
Master recon and exploitation of the vsftpd 2.3.4 backdoor using Nmap and Metasploit on Metasploitable, gain a remote shell, and cover post-exploit safety and mitigation.
Explore the OWASP top 10, understand what SQL is and how SQL injections work, and watch a mini practical demo of authentication bypass and data exposure.
Compare sql injections with nosql injections and learn how nosql databases use json queries, enabling authentication bypass and data exposure through crafted payloads.
Explore OS command injections that execute attacker supplied input via a shell; prevent them by avoiding the shell, using argument arrays, and strict input validation.
Master detection and mitigation tactics for SQL injection, NoSQL injection, and command injection using prepared statements, allow listing, input validation, least-privilege accounts, and AI-assisted code review.
Demonstrates SQL injection techniques on DVWA from low to impossible, showing how union-based data extraction, information_schema queries, and prepared statements reveal or prevent user data exposure.
Demonstrates a DVWA command injection vulnerability by executing chained commands like ping and whoami, and shows how blacklisting and bypass techniques reveal OS and host information.
Conduct a lab-based injection assessment to detect sql, no-sql, and command injection vulnerabilities; produce proof-of-concepts and remediation patches using prepared statements and input validation, with ai-assisted validation.
Learn how broken authentication enables attackers to impersonate users and mitigate it with strong password storage (salts and slow hashes like Argon2 or bcrypt), session management, and robust multi-factor authentication.
Explore how session management uses session IDs stored in cookies to track user activity and defend against threats like session hijacking, fixation, and prediction.
Discover how AI enhances session security by detecting hijacking and fixation via behavioral profiling and risk scoring, with adaptive policy enforcement and SOAR-driven automated responses.
Explore JSON Web Tokens, including header, payload, and signature, and how they enable authentication and authorization. Learn common vulnerabilities such as token theft, replay, and weak signing keys.
Explore insecure passwords through topics like password aliasing, password derived keys, and password reuse semantics, and learn how to strengthen authentication with robust multi-factor authentication and secure reset practices.
Demonstrates authorization bypass and password reset broken logic vulnerabilities in web apps, showing how url manipulation and token tampering can grant admin data access.
Audit, exploit, and redesign authentication and session management for a deliberately vulnerable web app, documenting token types, storage, MFA, and mitigation strategies with AI-assisted analysis.
Explore the fundamentals of cross-site scripting, including goals, three types (reflected, stored, dom-based), and testing methods to identify xss vulnerabilities in web applications.
Learn how dom-based cross-site scripting arises when client-side JavaScript uses attacker-controlled DOM data, including URL hash and cookies, to alter the page.
Learn how content security policy, fetch directives, and nonces defend web apps against cross-site scripting and CSRF while configuring headers, reporting, and AI-assisted CSP drafting.
Learn to prevent cross-site scripting by applying output encoding and sanitizing at the output, implement input validation, and use auto escaping and CSP to mitigate XSS risks.
Understand CSRF, how attackers exploit it with crafted requests and social engineering, and defences such as synchronizer tokens and same-site cookies that validate tokens for state-changing actions.
perform a comprehensive cross-site scripting assessment on a vulnerable web application, discovering stored, reflected, and dom-based XSS, then document exploits and craft AI-assisted remediation and secure coding recommendations.
Explore insecure direct object references (IDOR) and learn to detect, test, and mitigate them through server-side authorization, opaque references, and robust access control.
Identify idor vulnerabilities by distinguishing vertical and horizontal escalation and how object references grant access. Learn detection steps to expose admin-only and cross-user data.
Explore how access control governs who can view or modify resources, covering RBAC, ABAC, and ACL, common vulnerabilities, and server-side mitigations including MFA, CSRF protection, and centralized policy enforcement.
Explore missing authorization checks in open authorization, SSO, and federated identity management, and learn how token audience, issuer validation, and re-authentication guard access control.
Master hardening techniques against access control vulnerabilities and IDOR to prevent unauthorized resource access. Leverage AI agents to enhance policy analysis, enforcement validation, and anomaly detection across RBAC and ABAC.
Explore practical access control vulnerabilities and OAuth bypass techniques in web apps, including URL-based access control, X original URL header abuse, and demonstrating admin panel bypass and user deletion.
Audit and rebuild access control lists for vulnerable web apps, identifying privilege gaps and simulating escalation to validate RBAC/ABAC redesigns and automated ACL testing with AI agents.
Master tls misconfigurations to secure web applications through detection and remediation. Discover how to enforce tls 1.3, strong cipher suites, and forward secrecy using ai agents for automation.
Learn about insecure http headers and their components, such as hsts and content security policy, and apply practical remediation to prevent header misconfigurations.
Identify insecure error messages that reveal internal details, increasing data exposure and attack surface. Apply safe practices: uniform authentication errors, fail-safe messages, parameterized queries, sanitized inputs, and production hardening.
Identify what counts as a secret, where secrets reside (server, artifacts, browser), and apply mitigations like input validation, CSP, and rotating secrets to prevent browser storage and SSRF risks.
Learn how cryptographic failures cause data exposure through weak encryption, misconfigurations, and poor key management. Explore TLS weaknesses, encoding versus encryption issues, and misconfigurations that undermine tokens and secrets.
Examine cryptography vulnerabilities in web apps, from XOR and base64 encoding to weak token generation, and learn how insecure AES-128-ECB tokens enable privilege escalation.
Explore evolution of file handling from primitive to AI-driven, and how insecure file handling—uploads, path traversal, command injection, and deserialization—enables code execution, with AI agents aiding detection and mitigation.
Explore multi-layer validation for secure file uploads, combining extension checks, MIME type and binary signature verification, content inspection, and ai-assisted detection to prevent double extensions, spoofing, steganography, and path traversal.
Master server-side request forgery (SSRF) concepts, from basic to blind SSRF, and distinguish SSRF from CSRF and XSS while exploring internal resource access and practical demonstrations.
Explore remote file inclusion and local file inclusion, where server-side paths fetch external or local files; learn defenses like disable allow_url_include, whitelisting, and path sanitization.
Explore traditional and AI-augmented remediation for web vulnerabilities like remote file inclusion, local file inclusion, and SSRF, including input sanitization, strict access controls, and AI-driven detection and patching.
Demonstrates remote code execution via insecure file uploads in a web app, uploading a php web shell to exfiltrate the secret from a sensitive file.
Demo of a path traversal vulnerability in a product image display, revealing /etc/password by altering image paths and illustrating insecure direct object reference concepts in bug bounty testing.
Demonstrates insecure deserialization in a web app by modifying a serialized session cookie to escalate privileges from Veena to admin, bypass authentication, and delete a user.
Explore web application vulnerabilities through a two-phase mini project on file upload bypass and ssrf, featuring safe lab practices, remediation planning, and reproducible, evidence-driven results.
Identify REST and GraphQL API weaknesses, including broken authorization, overposting, and rate limiting gaps. Learn mitigations like field level authorization, central access checks, and limiting data exposure.
Explore broken object level authorization and its relation to IDOR, and see how mass assignment creates privilege escalation in REST and GraphQL APIs through practical demos.
Explore rate limiting and throttling, their algorithms (fixed and sliding windows, token bucket, leaky bucket), bypass techniques (IP rotation, multiple keys), and mitigations (identity-based limits, multi-layer enforcement, anomaly detection).
Explore how mobile backends differ from web backends, including SaaS, MB-AAS, and custom backends. Learn how AI agents aid defense with reconnaissance, fuzzing, planning, and automated PoC generation.
Compare OAuth and OIDC to understand authentication versus authorization and identify OIDC attack surfaces. Apply mitigations: strict token validation, state and nonce binding, secure callbacks, short lifetimes, and AI monitoring.
Learn how API fuzzing automates testing by sending malformed inputs to endpoints, exploring mutation-based, generation-based, and stateful approaches, with AI agents prioritizing test cases and guiding tests.
Demonstrate identifying and exploiting API security vulnerabilities by locating exposed API documentation and manipulating API endpoints in an e-commerce lab, using get, patch, and JSON payloads to alter prices.
Perform an api security assessment of StarCard, a fictional online marketplace, testing REST and GraphQL endpoints and fuzzing for vulnerabilities. Propose redesigns focusing on authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.
Modern offensive security is no longer about isolated exploits or tool memorization. Real-world red team operations require disciplined methodology, legal and ethical rigour, cross-domain exploitation skills, and the ability to scale analysis and reporting—now increasingly with AI assistance under strict human control.
Advanced Offensive Security & Red Teaming with AI Agents is a comprehensive, hands-on program designed to teach how professional red teams operate across web applications, APIs, networks, Active Directory, IoT environments, and post-exploitation phases, while responsibly integrating AI agents into reconnaissance, triage, and reporting workflows.
This course begins by establishing rules of engagement, legal boundaries, lab safety, and AI guardrails, ensuring every technique is executed ethically, auditable, and compliant. From there, you progress through the full offensive lifecycle: reconnaissance and OSINT, scanning and vulnerability discovery, web exploitation aligned with the OWASP Top 10, authentication and access control failures, API and modern web security, network and Active Directory attacks, post-exploitation, and command-and-control simulation.
A unique strength of this course is its AI-augmented offensive security approach. You will learn where AI agents can accelerate recon, vulnerability triage, and reporting—and where they must be constrained with logging, audit trails, and human-in-the-loop validation to avoid unsafe or unreliable outcomes.
The course also extends beyond traditional enterprise targets into IoT and embedded device penetration testing, covering firmware analysis, embedded operating systems, wireless protocols, OTA update security, and common device misconfigurations.
Learning is reinforced through mini projects, large module projects, and two capstone engagements:
A full red team engagement, spanning web, API, network, AD, IoT, post-exploitation, C2 simulation, and AI agent integration.
An AI-augmented purple team assessment, demonstrating measurable detection and response improvements.
By the end of this course, you will not just know how attacks work—you will understand how to plan, execute, document, and responsibly automate offensive security operations at a professional level.