CompTIA Pentest+ (Ethical Hacking) Course and Practice Exam

Description

The CompTIA Pentest+ certification is an intermediate-level vendor-neutral certification that validates your knowledge and ability to plan/scope an assessment and analyze/report on your findings. This certification was released by CompTIA to fill a gap between the foundational-level CompTIA Security+ exam (for those with about 1 year in the field) and the advanced-level CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (for those with at least 5 years in the field). This course is focused on the technical, hands-on details of the cybersecurity field, including how to emulate a cyber threat, infiltrate a secure network architecture, and conduct a penetration test against your organizational networks (with permission, of course). This course provides everything you need in order to study for the CompTIA Pentest+ exam. Each section is dedicated to each of the 5 domains, and each domain contains brief videos on topics that will further your understanding of ethical hacking and get you one step closer to ace the exam. By the end of the course, you will have the confidence to tackle the CompTIA Pentest+ exam and become a certified ethical hacker. You will also create your own pentest lab. The code bundle for this course is available at https://github.com/packtpublishing/comptia-pentest-ethical-hacking-course-and-practice-exam

What You Will Learn

Exploit networks and systems during a pentest
Prepare a report and communicate your findings
Gather information and identify vulnerabilities
Perform exploits on target systems using pen testing tools
Report and communicate your findings
Create your own pen testing lab

Audience

This course is designed for penetration testers, IT security analysts, vulnerability analysts and testers, network security operations personnel, or anyone who is trying to get a better understanding of the concepts involved in conducting a penetration test and its associated toolsets.

Approach

This course is designed in such a way that each section will cover new scenarios in a step-by-step approach to help you learn and understand the concept.

Key Features

Learn ethical hacking from an examination point of view * Understand the penetration testing methodology * Plan and scope a penetration test

Github Repo

https://github.com/packtpublishing/comptia-pentest-ethical-hacking-course-and-practice-exam

About the Author

Jason Dion

Jason Dion, CISSP No. 349867, is an adjunct instructor at Liberty University's College of Engineering and Computational Science and Anne Arundel Community College's Department of Computing Technologies with multiple information technology professional certifications, including Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), Certified Network Defense Architect (CNDA), Digital Forensic Examiner (DFE), Digital Media Collector (DMC), Security+, Network+, A+, PRINCE2, and Information Technology Infrastructure Library v3. He has been a deputy director of a network operations center, and an information systems officer for large organizations around the globe.

Course Outline

1. Introduction

2. Domain 1: Planning and Scoping

3. Domain 2: Information Gathering and Vulnerability Identification

4. Domain 3: Attacks and Exploits

5. Domain 4: Penetration Testing Tools

6. Domain 5: Reporting and Communication

7. Conclusion