Step 04 · Offensive security
Penetration Tester
Penetration testing belongs to offensive cyber. The tester's job is to attack digital assets in order to find weaknesses and vulnerabilities, report them and see them closed. This is the track ITSAFE is best known for, and the reason our graduates make up a significant share of the security research community in Israel.
Curriculum
- 01
Offensive Foundations & Lab Methodology
Recon, enumeration, scoping and disciplined note-taking.
- 02
Web Application Penetration Testing
OWASP Top 10, authentication flaws, injection, logic abuse.
- 03
Infrastructure & Network Exploitation
Service exploitation, pivoting, post-exploitation, privilege escalation.
- 04
Active Directory Attacks
Domain mapping, credential abuse, lateral movement, domain takeover.
- 05
Scripting for Offensive Work
Python and shell automation for tooling and exploitation.
- 06
Reporting & Client Communication
Risk rating, remediation guidance and defensible findings.
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