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Red Team Offensive Security & Penetration Testing Professional

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Total Duration 120 Hours
Level Beginner

Skills you'll learn

28 skills
Cybersecurity Fundamentals
Network Security Fundamentals
Network Traffic Analysis
Linux & Windows Security
Web Technologies & Security
Reconnaissance & OSINT
Security Monitoring
SIEM & SOAR Fundamentals
Malware Analysis
Ethical Hacking Fundamentals

Prerequisites

Basic understanding of computers and operating systems
Fundamental knowledge of networking concepts

Course Outline

This isn't just a course. It's a structured path designed to turn you into a specialist ready for the global job market.

  • What is Cybersecurity?
  • Career Paths in Cybersecurity Overview of roles, responsibilities, and certification roadmap
  • Offensive vs. Defensive Security
  • Introduction to Networking
  • The OSI Model
  • TCP/IP Protocol
  • Subnetting & IP Addressing
  • Network Traffic Analysis with Wireshark
  • Linux Introduction
  • Essential Commands Navigation, file operations, text processing
  • User & Group Management Creating users, modifying permissions
  • File Permissions Understanding rwx & chmod
  • Bash Scripting Basics
  • Windows Fundamentals
  • Windows Security Features UAC, Windows Defender.
  • Active Directory fundamentals: Domains, forests, trusts & Group Policy
  • Windows Permissions
  • How the Web Works?
  • DNS Deep Dive: DNS resolution process, record types & DNS security
  • HTTP Protocol & Methods
  • Introduction to Cryptography Goals: Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability & Non-repudiation.
  • Symmetric Encryption.
  • Asymmetric Encryption, Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
  • Hashing & Digital Signatures SHA family & MD5
  • Ethical Hacking Methodology Reconnaissance, scanning, exploitation, post-exploitation & reporting
  • Information Gathering Passive vs. active reconnaissance, OSINT techniques.
  • Scanning & Enumeration Port scanning, service detection, vulnerability scanning.
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Vulnerability Assessment Tools
  • Tool Purpose
  • Nessus Comprehensive vulnerability scanning
  • Acunetix Web application security scanning
  • Nuclei, template-based vulnerability scanner
  • Vulnerability vs. Exploit vs. Misconfiguration.
  • Common Vulnerability Types.
  • OWASP.
  • Exploitation Frameworks
  • Security Monitoring Fundamentals
  • IDS/IPS Systems Signature vs. anomaly detection.
  • Firewalls & Network Security
  • SIEM Fundamentals Log aggregation, correlation rules & dashboards Using Elastic Search.
  • SOAR Solution.
  • Malware Analysis & Sandboxing
  • Incident Response Process

Target Audience

Designed to meet the needs of learners at different career stages, empowering them to build user-centered digital experiences

IT & cybersecurity professionals who want to develop offensive security and penetration testing skills.
Web application security professionals who want to practical knowledge of web and API penetration testing.
Network and system administrators interested in security assessment and vulnerability testing.
Cybersecurity analysts who want to expand their knowledge into ethical hacking and Red Team operations.
Recent graduates aiming to start a career in offensive cybersecurity and penetration testing.
Learning outcomes

What you'll learn

Understand Cybersecurity Fundamentals
Apply Networking and Traffic Analysis Concepts
Operate in Linux and Windows Environments
Understand Web Technologies and Security
Apply Cryptography Fundamentals
Understand Offensive Security Concepts
Understand Defensive Security Concepts
Develop Cybersecurity Analytical Thinking
Learn to extract detailed information such as user accounts, system banners and shared resources from a target network.
Identify psychological manipulation techniques used to trick users and develop strategies to mitigate human-centric security risks.
Assess the unique security challenges and attack vectors associated with Cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), and Operational Technology (OT).
Apply cryptographic algorithms and digital signatures to ensure data confidentiality and integrity, while understanding common cryptanalysis attacks.
Understand Penetration Testing Concepts
Perform Reconnaissance & Information Gathering
Scan and Enumerate Target Systems
Exploit Security Weaknesses
Perform Post-Exploitation Activities
Conduct Infrastructure Penetration Testing
Test Web Applications for Vulnerabilities
Perform API Security Testing
Understand Social Engineering Attacks
About this course

About this course

The Red Team Offensive Security & Penetration Testing Professional track provides a hands-on foundation in cybersecurity, ethical hacking, offensive security and penetration testing. The track takes participants through the full security testing lifecycle, starting with networking, operating systems, web technologies, cryptography, and security fundamentals then progressing into reconnaissance, vulnerability assessment, exploitation and penetration testing.

By the end of the track, learns will be able to approach security assessments from an offensive perspective, identify and analyze vulnerabilities, perform penetration testing activities within defined scopes, document findings and produce professional penetration testing reports.

Accredited Credentials

  • Attendance Certificate from CLS Learning Solutions 
Red Team Offensive Security & Penetration Testing Professional

Potential Career Paths

Penetration Tester
Ethical Hacker
Offensive Security Specialist
API Security Tester
Network Security Tester
Application Security Analyst