Description
Introduction to Pen Testing for Cybersecurity Professionals is a course designed to familiarize cybersecurity professionals with the principles, methodologies, tools, and workflows used in authorized penetration testing, published by LinkedIn Online Academy. Suitable for security professionals, network administrators, IT professionals, students, and cybersecurity enthusiasts, this course explains how penetration testing can be used to identify vulnerabilities and assess an organization’s ability to withstand simulated attacks, and presents the discipline as a structured, repeatable process, not a set of isolated tricks. Learners begin by studying the different types of penetration testing and understand how projects can vary in scope, purpose, and overall goal, from black-box assessments with no prior knowledge of a system to more collaborative white-box projects. The course then covers risk assessment and attack surface, teaching learners how to think broadly about an organization’s exposure and identify which systems, services, and entry points need the most attention before beginning any active testing.
The course then moves on to the practical early stages of a project: detection and scanning. Learners study how information about a target is passively and actively gathered, and how scanning techniques reveal active hosts, open ports, and running services that shape the rest of the assessment. These techniques are tied together through structured testing methodologies, giving learners a repeatable framework, rather than an ad hoc approach, for testing. The course also introduces common security tools used throughout these stages, along with techniques tailored to different environments, including networks, websites, wireless systems, cloud services, and mobile infrastructure. Human and organizational factors are also explored, covering email-based attack vectors and social engineering considerations that are often as important as technical vulnerabilities. By the end of the course, learners will understand how to plan, execute, and evaluate authorized penetration testing in a wide range of real-world environments.
What you will learn in Introduction to Pen Testing for Cybersecurity Professionals:
- Organizational Penetration Testing
- Types of Penetration Testing
- Penetration Testing Techniques
- Penetration Testing Overview
- Penet Testing Outsourcing
- And…
Course specifications
Publisher: LinkedIn
Instructors: Lisa Bock
Language: English
Level: Beginner
Number of Lessons: _
Duration: 1h 53m
Course topics
Introduction to Pen Testing for Cybersecurity Professionals Prerequisites
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