Overview of Penetration Testing Concepts – for Beginners

Overview of Penetration Testing Concepts – for Beginners, Gain a basic understanding of Pen Testing Concepts.

Course Description

In this course, we’ll cover the basic concepts of penetration testing to Gain an Overview of Pen Testing Concepts

Note: This course does not cover any utilization of cyber security tools. This lecture only covers the basic concepts of Penetration testing.

In the First section, We will learn what penetration testing is in the first place. why conduct it? different types of penetration testing? and Rules of Engagement (RoE Document).

In types of penetration testing, we’ll learn about the Application penetration test, Network penetration test, Physical penetration test, and IoT/Mobile penetration test. We will also learn about the scope of penetration testing – Black box testing, White box testing & Gray box testing in the Rules of Engagement.

In Section Two, we will learn about the different phases of penetration testing. There are five phases in penetration testing.

They are as follows:

Information gathering

Scanning

Exploitation

Post Exploitation

Reporting

Note: This course does not cover any utilization of cyber security tools. This lecture only covers the concepts of Penetration testing.