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Course Overview

Adversaries evolve quickly; organizations must match that speed with rigorous testing, analysis, and remediation. This training provides a practical, tool-based approach to offensive security to identify, validate, and close real-world weaknesses.

This ten-day course combines labs, case studies, and tabletop exercises so participants can conduct controlled attacks, interpret findings, and translate results into prioritized security improvements. Delivered by EuroQuest International Training, the course balances technical depth with governance and risk considerations.

Key Benefits of Attending

• Build hands-on skills in ethical hacking and real-world penetration testing
• Validate and prioritize security weaknesses with evidence-based testing
• Improve incident readiness and remediation speed
• Strengthen collaboration between security, IT, and risk teams
• Gain pragmatic techniques to reduce attack surface and exposure

Why Attend

Attend to move from theoretical knowledge to practical capability: discover exploitable gaps, validate controls, and embed repeatable testing practices across your organisation.

Course Methodology

• Instructor-led demonstrations and tool walkthroughs
• Hands-on lab sessions (network, web, cloud, and endpoint)
• Red/blue team simulation and tabletop exercises
• Real case studies and attack chain analysis
• Actionable remediation prioritization and reporting templates

Course Objectives

By the end of this ten-day training course, participants will be able to:

• Understand ethical hacking frameworks and legal/ethical boundaries
• Plan and scope a penetration test with business context
• Execute reconnaissance, scanning, and exploit validation
• Perform secure web, network, and cloud testing techniques
• Analyze exploits and craft mitigation strategies for findings
• Produce clear, risk-based penetration test reports for stakeholders
• Integrate testing outcomes into vulnerability management cycles
• Apply threat modelling to prioritize security investments
• Enhance incident response planning with attacker perspectives
• Use automated and manual techniques to validate fixes
• Recommend secure configuration and hardening controls
• Establish repeatable testing programs for continuous improvement

Target Audience

• Security engineers and penetration testers
• SOC analysts and incident responders
• IT/network administrators and cloud engineers
• Application developers with security responsibilities
• Risk and compliance professionals overseeing security testing

Target Competencies

• Practical penetration testing and exploit validation
• Vulnerability assessment and prioritization
• Secure configuration and hardening controls
• Incident response informed by attacker techniques
• Reporting and stakeholder communication for remediation
• Threat modelling and risk-based remediation planning
• Tooling proficiency (scanners, exploit frameworks, forensic tools)

Course Outline

Unit 1: Foundations of Ethical Hacking

• Legal, ethical and scope considerations for tests
• Attack surface mapping and reconnaissance methods
• Adversary frameworks and kill chain concepts
• Scoping and rules of engagement

Unit 2: Reconnaissance and Information Gathering

• Passive and active discovery techniques
• OSINT, footprinting, and enumeration tools
• Mapping network assets and services
• Prioritizing targets for testing

Unit 3: Vulnerability Discovery and Scanning

• Automated scanning best practices and tuning
• False positives/false negatives handling
• Manual verification techniques
• Prioritization using risk context

Unit 4: Exploit Analysis and Validation

• Manual exploit validation principles
• Constructing proof-of-concepts safely
• Post-exploitation basics and persistence risks
• Reporting validated findings

Unit 5: Web Application Penetration Testing

• OWASP Top 10 and advanced web flaws
• Testing APIs, authentication, and session management
• Exploiting logic and business-logic flaws
• Secure remediation guidance

Unit 6: Network and Infrastructure Attacks

• Lateral movement, pivoting, and privilege escalation
• Exploiting misconfigurations and weak protocols
• Wireless and perimeter testing considerations
• Network segmentation and mitigation tactics

Unit 7: Cloud and Container Security Testing

• Cloud misconfiguration and IAM abuse testing
• Container and orchestration platform weaknesses
• Secure deployment patterns and remediation steps
• Cloud-native logging and detection validation

Unit 8: Endpoint and Malware Analysis Basics

• Endpoint attack vectors and persistence methods
• Static and dynamic malware analysis overview
• EDR bypass techniques and detection testing
• Hardening endpoints and response workflows

Unit 9: Social Engineering and Phishing Simulations

• Designing controlled social engineering tests
• Phishing campaigns: creation, execution, measurement
• Human factors in security and awareness feedback
• Controls to reduce social engineering risk

Unit 10: Red/Blue Team Collaboration and Purple Teaming

• Coordinated exercises to validate controls
• Purple teaming for continuous improvement
• Measuring detection and response maturity
• Translating test outcomes into security metrics

Unit 11: Reporting, Metrics, and Remediation Planning

• Structuring executive summaries and technical appendices
• Risk scoring and remediation prioritization methods
• Tracking closure and verification processes
• Communicating with technical and executive stakeholders

Unit 12: Capstone Penetration Test Simulation

• Full-scope, team-based penetration test exercise
• Realistic attack simulation and evidence generation
• Presentation of findings and remediation roadmap
• Lessons learned and action planning

Closing Call to Action

Join this ten-day training course to gain hands-on mastery of ethical hacking and penetration testing, and turn simulated attacks into stronger defenses.