Digital technologies have brought about unprecedented transformation in the way we live, work, and communicate. Businesses are being disrupted everywhere. Almost everything we do is generating data, making the data a precious commodity. There’s a growing concern for data security as the risk and dangers of our data becoming exposed steadily increases. If a system is not secured, then any attacker can disrupt or gain unauthorized access to that system. Security risk is normally an accidental error that occurs while developing and implementing the software. For example, configuration errors, design errors, and software bugs, etc. Penetration testing normally evaluates a system's ability to protect its networks, applications, endpoints and users from external or internal threats.

Penetration testing is a type of security testing that is performed to discover security vulnerabilities in a network, application or system. It also attempts to protect the security controls and ensures only authorized access. Penetration testing is an essential step that needs to be performed regularly for securing the uninterrupted functioning of a system.

Penetration testing is one of the important skills expected from every IT security position like network administrators and security professionals. Star Penetration Testing Experts (SPTE) is a comprehensive certification program that will take the learners through everything they need to know about penetration testing and ethical hacking. It helps learners master the skillset they need to establish a successful career as a penetration tester. SPTE explains different facets of pen testing, which are majorly used for preparing a defence mechanism of network systems. The program discusses latest techniques that are applied by security experts and ethical hackers during pen testing.

Audience

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn about:

Penetration testing
Information gathering from different sources
Analysis and documentation based on information gathered
Hacking systems/web apps to prepare for their defence
Securing the system from future attacks
Metasploit exploitation
Firewall and IDS for securing network systems
Post exploitation procedures
Security design principles

Course Outcome

After completing this course, you will be able to:

Gather sensitive information in websites
Identify the reasons of vulnerabilities
Hack web applications with vulnerabilities and patch them
Use penetration testing tools to exploit vulnerable systems
Demonstrate how to crack passwords given the hashes in password file
Perform exploitation with Metasploit
Configure firewall and IDS for secure network systems
Employ security design principles for securing network systems

Table Of Contents Outline

Introduction to Penetration Testing (Pen Testing)
Information Gathering
Scanning the Systems to Know the Loop Holes
Applying Enumeration Techniques on the Network Systems
Performing the Threat and Vulnerabilities Assessment Using Metasploit
Exploiting the Systems to Prepare for Defence
Exploiting Web Apps
Preventing Systems Using Strong Passwords Techniques
Performing Pen Testing on Mobile Devices
Advanced Exploitation Techniques
Performing Analysis and Documentation

Official Book

Participation certificate

Exam Details

Registration link	Closed
Exam Codes	SPTE S09-010 (Academy customers use the same codes)
Number of Questions	90
Type of Questions	MULTIPLE CHOICE
Length of Test	180 Minutes
Passing Score	70%
Recommended Experience	EHE (Ethical Hacking Expert), System Administrator, Network Server Administrator, Firewall Administrator, Security Tester, risk assessment professional and web security administrator.
Languages	English