Certified Penetration Testing Associate (CPTA)
Lessons available in 9 languages with native text-to-speech (beta)
The Certified Penetration Testing Associate (CPTA) helps organisations develop practical offensive cybersecurity skills within their teams.
Through hands on labs, realistic scenarios and practical assessments, analysts will learn how to identify, exploit and report vulnerabilities across enterprise infrastructure, web applications and cloud environments, building practical penetration testing capability that can be applied within their organisation.
Skills Your Team Will Gain
Certified Penetration Testing Associate (CPTA)
Recommended experience
0-3 years experience
Estimated time to complete
approximately 100 hours to complete
On-demand access
Complete in 4 months
NICE Mapping
Cyber Defense Analyst
60% Topics, 60% Knowledge, 67% Ability
Who is the course for?
CPTA is designed for organisations developing penetration testers, ethical hackers and red team operators, as well as organisations looking to strengthen their offensive security skills across existing teams.
Blue team practitioners, including SOC analysts, threat hunters, detection engineers and incident responders, will also benefit from a deeper understanding of attacker methodologies, tools, techniques and procedures.
The content is primarily aimed at junior practitioners, but can also support more experienced security professionals in SOC teams looking to develop or broaden their offensive security skills.
Why choose CPTA?
CPTA combines structured learning with hands on labs and practical assessments to help organisations develop technical skills that can be applied in real world penetration testing and security assessments.
Learners will gain practical experience in:
- Penetration Testing - Plan and perform realistic engagements
- Vulnerability Exploitation - Discover, exploit and validate vulnerabilities
- Attack Techniques - Apply privilege escalation, lateral movement and post-exploitation techniques
- Security Assessment - Assess enterprise infrastructure, web applications and AWS environments
- Professional Reporting - Communicate findings clearly to help organisations address vulnerabilities
Networking Essentials
42 topics
16 quizzes
What Your Team Will Learn
Lessons
- Introduction and History
- Network Components
- Cabling
- OSI Model
- TCP/IP
- IPv4
- ARP
- Routing
- Transport Layer
- DNS
- ICMP
- DHCP
- IPv6
- Basic Network Security
- Network Troubleshooting
- Wireless Networking
- Final Quiz
Linux Essentials
Windows Essentials
Python Essentials
Penetration Testing Process
Network Discovery
Vulnerability Assessment
Password Attacks
Exploitation Essentials
File Transfer & Data Movement
Linux Privilege Escalation
Windows Privilege Escalation
Lateral Movement Essentials
Persistence Essentials
Web Application Essentials
AWS Essentials
Practice Labs And Exam Preparation
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