CPTE - Certified Penetration Testing Engineer

Explore ethical pen testing through black-box to gray-box approaches, learning information gathering, scanning, exploiting, and covering tracks with emphasis on ethics, regulatory considerations, and defense against botnets and vulnerabilities.

Discover Linux fundamentals, including user account management, mounting drives, tarballs, and archives, and explore distributions and open source tools for penetration testing with Kali Linux.

Explore information gathering for penetration testing: differentiate passive and active reconnaissance, collect data from online sources, social engineering, physical security, OSINT tools, DNS insights, and Google hacking.

Explore how port scanning reveals open ports, running services, and operating system fingerprinting using tools like Nmap and Zenmap, including full and half-open tcp scans, udp scans, and countermeasures.

Explore enumeration techniques to discover network resources, usernames, services, and banners from web servers, DNS transfers, SNMP and SMB enumeration, and Active Directory data, plus practical countermeasures.

Perform vulnerability assessments across networks, operating systems, and services, and follow up with manual penetration testing to confirm automated findings and guide patch management.

Learn how malware spreads via email, removable media, and trusted websites, how trojans create backdoors using tools like netcat, and implement practical prevention methods and countermeasures.

Cover password attacks and hash cracking on Windows, including LAN Manager and NTLM, rainbow tables, brute force, and offline attacks, plus social engineering and steganography.

Learn Unix/Linux architecture, file system layout, and process management; examine root and kernel, permissions and trust relationships, logs, remote services, and practical countermeasures for secure systems.

Explore advanced exploitation techniques, including buffer overflows, heap and stack issues, race conditions, and format string attacks, along with zero-day exploits and privilege escalation concepts.

Analyze wireless network security by examining 802.11 standards, SSIDs, MAC filtering, and WEP to WPA2 encryption, with radius-based authentication, using aircrack-ng and Kali Linux for auditing.

explore network sniffing and intrusion detection, including packet capture, ARP and DNS poisoning, SSL sniffing and man-in-the-middle attacks, plus countermeasures like IDS/IPS and cache poisoning defenses.

Explore sql injection threats and direct and indirect database attacks, learn how malicious input can bypass authentication and leak data, and review hardening and validation defenses.

Explore attacking web technologies and common web application threats, including cross-site scripting, injection flaws, and csrf, through hands-on testing tools and web server reconnaissance.

Develop clear project documentation for penetration testing, including risk analysis, report matrices, and executive summaries. Deliver the final report with screenshots and video captures through secure channels and audience-appropriate formatting.