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+44 207 907 1120EC-Council - EC-Council CAST Advanced Penetration Testing course
Overview
The EC-Council Centre of Advanced Security Training has arrived at Firebrand Training. This three-day Advanced Penetration Testing course is intensive, and focuses on attacking and defending highly-secured environments. You will learn what it takes to hack into some of the most secure networks and applications in the world.
Warning: This is not a beginner’s course. You'll spend 80% of the course in hands-on hacking labs, so you're expected to know how to hack many platforms and architectures. The course is right for you if you're a: security consultant, penetration tester, firewall administrator, system architect or system administrator.
You will learn how to:
- Attack modern operating systems, such as Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Linux servers
- Identify system vulnerabilities that can be taken advantage-of by a malicious intruder
- Identify vulnerabilities that exist in an unpatched operating system
- Breach the security of a network or system
- Test intrusion detection and response capabilities
- Analyse and address your system’s weaknesses, through penetration testing
- Break into a highly-secured organisation from the 'outside'
- Move around a network without being detected by IDS/IPS
- Avoid common security features, such as: locked down desktops, GPOs, IDSs/IPSs/WAFs
- How to 'pentest' high security environments, such as government agencies and financial institutions.
Note: this course doesn't include an exam, but you'll become Advanced Penetration Testing certified.
9x Accredited Training Centre of the Year
Firebrand Training has again won the EC-Council Accredited Training Centre of the Year Award, from a Training Partner network that has more than 700 training centres across 107 countries. This extends a record-breaking run of successive awards to nine years.
Jay Bavisi, President of EC-Council said: “The annual EC-Council Awards highlights the commitment and achievements of our global partners and trainers that have contributed to the information security community.”
Benefits
Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training
- Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
- You'll be certified fast. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
- Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
- Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
- You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9 am – 5 pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day of quality learning time, with your instructor
- You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
- You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 135,000 professionals
- * For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
- ** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
Curriculum
Module 1: Advanced Scanning
- Bypassing Network Filtering
- Stealth Scanning
- Bypassing IDS/IPS
Module 2: Attacking From the Web
- XSS to command-shell
- SQL Injection to command-shell
- MS-SQL
- MySQL
- Oracle
- File Handling to command-shell
- File Upload to command-shell
- RFI to command-shell
- LFI to command-shell
Module 3: Client-Side Pentesting
- Bypassing Antivirus
- Packing Binaries
- Modifying Binaries with OllyDBG
- Writing Custom Trojans
- Email Collection
- Pivoting into the LAN
Module 4: Attacking From the LAN
- USB Hacksaw/USB Switchblade
- Bypassing Port Security
- Bypassing NAC Solutions
Module 5: Breaking out of Restricted Environments
- Citrix in Kiosk Mode
- Restricted Desktops
- Group Policy Object Restricted Applications
Module 6: Bypassing Network-Based IDS/IPS
- Enumerating the network
- Defeating IDS/IPS Signatures
Module 7: Privilege Escalation
- Privilege Escalation in Windows XP
- Privilege Escalation in Windows Vista
Module 8: Post-Exploitation
- Remote Command Execution
- Automating Tasks
- Enabling RDP/VNC
- Persistence
What's Included
Official EC-Council Courseware
- CAST 611 - Advanced Penetration Testing
Your accelerated course includes:
- Accommodation *
- Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
- On-site exams **
- Exam vouchers **
- Practice tests **
- Certification Guarantee ***
- Courseware
- Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
- 24-hour lab access
- Digital courseware **
- * For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
- ** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
- *** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.
Prerequisites
Warning: This is not a beginner’s course. You'll spend 80% of the course in hands-on hacking labs, so you're expected to know how to hack many platforms and architectures. The course has been created for: security consultants, penetration testers, firewall administrators, system architects and system administrators.
You must be familiar with:
- IT Security best practices, TCP/IP and common web technologies:
- Windows administration for servers and workstations
- Linux/*NIX system administration
- Intermediate command line proficiency on both Windows and *NIX systems
- The following web technologies and languages:
- HTTP
- HTML
- Javascript
- ASP
- PHP
- SQL
- Metasploit and VMware
Unsure whether you meet the prerequisites? Don’t worry. Your training consultant will discuss your background with you to understand if this course is right for you.
Reviews
Here's the Firebrand Training review section. Since 2001 we've trained exactly 134561 students and asked them all to review our Accelerated Learning. Currently, 96.41% have said Firebrand exceeded their expectations.
Read reviews from recent accelerated courses below or visit Firebrand Stories for written and video interviews from our alumni.
"Great 4 days of in-person training. The trainer was knowledgeable and brought a wealth of real world examples to what would have been otherwise a very theoretical training course."
Ian Smith, DWP. (8/1/2024 (Monday) to 11/1/2024 (Thursday))
"I attended the CND course which was online-led. This course was delivered very well allowing me to develop my knowledge in the related topics. Despite being online, I felt involved and felt as if I could ask any questions at any time."
Molly Macuras, Electricity North West Limited. (8/1/2024 (Monday) to 11/1/2024 (Thursday))
"The course was very informative and helped introduce us to the material. Instructor was very attentive and showed us many practical examples also."
SON, Lloyds. (3/10/2023 (Tuesday) to 6/10/2023 (Friday))
"Good training experience. The trainer was engaging and knowledgable and tried to explain the subject matter in an easy to understand way, rather than just reading slides."
SM. (3/10/2023 (Tuesday) to 6/10/2023 (Friday))
"Excellent course, our trainer was more than happy to go above and beyond."
Richard Williams, Head of Assurance. (25/9/2023 (Monday) to 29/9/2023 (Friday))
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