Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling

This course helps you develop the skills to conduct incident response investigations. You will learn how to apply a dynamic incident response process to evolving cyber threats, and how to develop threat intelligence to mount effective defense strategies for cloud and on-premises platforms. We’ll examine the latest threats to organizations, from watering hole attacks to cloud application service MFA bypass, enabling you to get into the mindset of attackers and anticipate their moves. 30+ Hands-on Labs

Certification: GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Enterprise Penetration Testing

This course prepares you to conduct successful penetration testing for entire modern enterprises, including on-prem systems, Azure, and Entra ID. The course doesn’t just focus on network devices, Windows, Linux, macOS, identity systems, etc. — instead, it focuses on the combined business risk of the entire enterprise. You will learn the methodology and techniques used by real-world penetration testers in large organizations to identify and exploit vulnerabilities at scale and show real business risk to your organization. The course material is complemented with 30+ practical lab exercises, concluding with an intensive, hands-on Capture-the-Flag exercise in which you will conduct a penetration test against a target organization and demonstrate what you’ve learned.

Certification: GIAC Penetration Tester (GPEN)

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Red Team Operations and Adversary Emulation

Develop and improve Red Team operations for security controls in SEC565 through adversary emulation, cyber threat intelligence, Red Team tradecraft, and engagement planning. Learn how to execute consistent and repeatable Red Team engagements that are focused on the effectiveness of the people, processes, and technology used to defend environments.

Certification: GIAC Red Team Professional (GRTP)

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking

It empowers students to quickly evaluate and expose security vulnerabilities in web applications, showcasing the potential business repercussions of exploitation. Gain practical experience in exploiting web apps within your enterprise, mastering attackers’ tools and methods. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn a best practice process for web application penetration testing, inject SQL into back-end databases to learn how attackers exfiltrate sensitive data, and utilize cross-site scripting attacks to dominate a target infrastructure. 30+ Hands-on Labs

Certification: GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT)

Cloud Security, Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Cloud Penetration Testing

This course will equip you with the latest cloud-focused penetration testing techniques and teach you how to assess cloud environments. The course dives into topics like cloud-based microservices, in-memory data stores, serverless functions, Kubernetes meshes, and containers. It also looks at how to identify and test cloud-first and cloud-native applications. You will also learn specific tactics for penetration testing in Azure and Amazon Web Services, particularly important given that AWS and Microsoft account for more than half the market. It is one thing to assess and secure a data center, but it takes a specialized skill set to evaluate and report on the risks to an organization if its cloud services are left insecure. 27 Hands-on Labs

Certification: GIAC Cloud Penetration Tester (GCPN)

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

iOS and Android Application Security Analysis and Penetration Testing

This course will prepare you to effectively evaluate the security of iOS and Android mobile devices, assess and identify flaws in mobile applications, and conduct a mobile device penetration test, which are all critical skills required to protect and defend mobile device deployments. You will learn how to pen test the biggest attack surface in your organization; dive deep into evaluating mobile apps and operating systems and their associated infrastructure; and better defend your organization against the onslaught of mobile device attacks.

Certification: GIAC Mobile Device Security Analyst (GMOB)

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploit Writing, and Ethical Hacking

This course is designed as a logical progression point for students who have completed Network Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking , or for those with existing penetration testing experience. This course provides you with in-depth knowledge of the most prominent and powerful attack vectors and furnishes an environment to perform these attacks in numerous hands-on scenarios. The course goes far beyond simple scanning for low-hanging fruit and teaches you how to model the abilities of an advanced attacker to find significant flaws in a target environment and demonstrate the business risk associated with these flaws. 30+ Hands-on Labs

Certification: GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN)

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Defeating Advanced Adversaries – Purple Team Tactics & Kill Chain Defenses

Defeating Advanced Adversaries – Purple Team Tactics & Kill Chain Defenses will arm you with the knowledge and expertise you need to overcome today’s threats. Recognizing that a prevent-only strategy is not sufficient, we will introduce security controls aimed at stopping, detecting, and responding to your adversaries through a purple team strategy. 20+ Hands-on Labs & a unique APT Defender Capstone

Certification: GIAC Defending Advanced Threats (GDAT)

Cyber Defense, Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Advanced Security Essentials—Enterprise Defender

Cyber reskilling and upskilling are significant concerns for enterprises both large and small. Technologists must have a broad range of knowledge and certain basic skills in multiple areas. Every member of a security team, increasingly extended into Information Technology and DevOps, must prepare to ensure that any system, software, or infrastructure that is coded, built, and deployed is resilient to attack. Team members must have the knowledge necessary to identify the adversaries in their midst, which requires knowledge of the adversaries’ tactics, techniques, and procedures, as well as familiarity with real-world tools that reveal their activities within the enterprise. Adversaries must be contained when uncovered-controlling their lateral movement and limiting the extent of their infiltration minimizes the risks of disclosure, alteration, and destruction of mission-critical enterprise data. Critically, having all hands on deck is key to eradicating the adversary, remediating compromised systems, and recovering lost assets. Prevent. Detect. Respond.

Certification: GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Security Automation for Offense, Defense, and Cloud

Security Automation for Offense, Defense, and Cloud will equip you with the expertise to apply automated solutions to prevent, detect, and respond to security incidents. Students first train to understand the concept of automation, then learn how existing technologies can be best leveraged to build automation stories that translate repeatable problems to automated scripts.

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Red Teaming Tools: Developing Windows Implants, Shellcode, Command and Control

This course prepares you to create custom-compiled programs specifically for Windows and introduces students to techniques that real nation-state malware authors are currently using. You will learn the essential building blocks for developing custom offensive tools through required programming, APIs used, and mitigations for techniques covering privilege escalation, persistence, and collection.

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Wireless Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking

This course will give you the skills you need to understand the security strengths and weaknesses in wireless systems. In this course, you will learn how to evaluate the ever-present cacophony of Wi-Fi networks and identify the Wi-Fi access points and client devices that threaten your organization; assess, attack, and exploit deficiencies in modern Wi-Fi deployments using WPA2 technology, including sophisticated WPA2-Enterprise networks; use your understanding of the many weaknesses in Wi-Fi protocols and apply it to modern wireless systems; and identify and attack Wi-Fi access points and exploit the behavioral differences in how client devices scan for, identify, and select access points.

Certification: GIAC Assessing and Auditing Wireless Networks (GAWN)

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Advanced Purple Teaming – Adversary Emulation & Detection Engineering

This course is Cyberpro’s advanced purple team offering, with a key focus on adversary emulation for data breach prevention and detection. Throughout this course, students will learn how real-life threat actors can be emulated in a realistic enterprise environment, including multiple AD forests. In true purple fashion, the goal of the course is to educate students on how adversarial techniques can be emulated (manual and automated) and detected (use cases / rules and anomaly-based detection).

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers

You will learn the skills required to reverse-engineer applications to find vulnerabilities, do remote user application and kernel debugging, analyze patches for one-day exploits, perform advanced fuzzing, and write complex exploits against targets such as the Windows kernel and the modern Linux heap, all while circumventing or working with against cutting-edge exploit mitigation.

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

IoT Penetration Testing

This course facilitates examining the entire IoT ecosystem, helping you build the vital skills needed to identify, assess, and exploit basic and complex security mechanisms in IoT devices. This course gives you tools and hands-on techniques necessary to evaluate the ever-expanding IoT attack surface.

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Product Security Penetration Testing – Safeguarding Supply Chains and Managing Third-Party Risk

Attackers are using new methods of compromising software supply chains that bypass traditional security controls across multiple attack surfaces. SEC568 offers comprehensive training, equipping you with the technical expertise to conduct precise product security assessments and risk analysis. Gain the knowledge and skills needed to protect your digital assets in a rapidly changing threat landscape.

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Metasploit for Enterprise Penetration Testing

SEC580 will teach you how to apply the incredible capabilities of the Metasploit Framework in a comprehensive penetration testing and vulnerability assessment regimen. In this course, you will learn how Metasploit can fit into your day-to-day penetration testing assessment activities. You’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the Metasploit Framework far beyond how to exploit a remote system. You’ll also explore exploitation, post-exploitation reconnaissance, token manipulation, spearphishing attacks, and the rich feature set of the Meterpreter, a customized shell environment specially created for exploiting and analyzing security flaws.

Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming

Frequently Asked Questions About Cybersecurity Courses

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, cybersecurity has become a critical concern for organizations worldwide. The demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals is growing exponentially, with the World Economic Forum projecting a talent shortage of 85 million workers by 2030. As a result, IT professionals, whether aspiring or experienced, are increasingly focusing on upskilling to meet this demand.

The high stakes of cybersecurity mean that hiring managers maintain rigorous standards, creating a significant barrier to entry that only education and experience can overcome. This is where cybersecurity courses come into play, offering IT professionals the opportunity to enhance their skills, gain valuable experience, and improve their marketability in the competitive IT career landscape.

Despite the many training organizations claiming expertise in cybersecurity, only a select few are recognized by industry decision-makers. This blog addresses the most common questions from your peers about cybersecurity courses, providing insights that influence both upskillers and job seekers alike.

1. What are the courses for cybersecurity?

Specializing in a specific area of cybersecurity helps tremendously when developing a course and certification roadmap for your cybersecurity career. Areas of specialization are as vast as the cybersecurity discipline itself. So, focus on areas of passion and keen interest, areas where you’ve made positive change or achieved ‘wins’ for an organization.

A few areas of specialization in cybersecurity include:

• Cloud Security
• Cyber Defense
• Cybersecurity and IT Essentials
• Cybersecurity Leadership
• Digital Forensics, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting
• Industrial Control Systems Security
• Offensive Operations, Pen Testing, and Red Teaming
• Open-Source Intelligence

2. How long is a cybersecurity course?

The length of a cybersecurity course depends on the course type. Course types fall into three categories: in-person, live online, and on demand.

In-person cybersecurity courses range from five to ten days in duration and offer a series of networking and professional development opportunities aside from the core subject matter training.

Live online cybersecurity courses take place during a specific date and time and are conducted live, with participants having access to some or all course materials after the completion of the live portion of the course. The duration is equal to that of the in-person version of the course: five to ten days.

OnDemand cybersecurity courses offer students the chance to learn at a customized pace while receiving live support from subject matter experts. There are sometimes limits on the length of time learners can access the materials, in many cases ranging from four months to unlimited access.

3. How much does a cybersecurity course cost?

Courses increase in cost based on complexity of subject matter, length of the course, and the tools and resources included in the course to hone the learner’s skills in a particular area. High quality, highly specialized, and technical courses cost more than others in the market.

Cybersecurity course fees and their return on investment depend on a learner’s goals when seeking cybersecurity education. A cybersecurity pro looking to build a skill base can piece together a learning curriculum, but that can be like building in the dark with no blueprint.

SANS courses offer a curated learning experience with all resources necessary to learn and master the most relevant skills in a subject area. This saves students time and effort. When reviewing costs, consider these factors:

• Time: The lower the cost, the less structured and impactful the experience. Learners often end up pulling together information from disparate sources with no assurance that what they’re learning is important to hiring managers and internal decision makers in their organizations.
• Reputation: Some educational groups in cybersecurity need no explanation as to their expertise or level of trust in the marketplace. Others, while popular in small groups of specialized cybersecurity pros, may not have the name recognition to grab the attention of fast-moving decision makers looking to promote the next solid cybersecurity expert in their organization.
• Employer sponsorship: Some educational groups offer pricing designed for learners who self-fund their education, while other training organizations facilitate corporate pricing for high-level, specialized coursework for their employees. This often helps employers prove that they’re addressing a pressing issue or a gaping hole in their cybersecurity positioning.

Courses that offer this level of efficient delivery and a high-level learning experience range between $3,000 and $6,000 per course.

4. How difficult is a cybersecurity course?

Difficulty levels of cybersecurity courses vary based on the experience level of the learner, the prerequisite courses needed, and the complexity of the course subject matter.

More advanced courses held in a group setting often present the most complexity to learners. Ways to address perceived difficulty of course materials include selecting a course style that best suits the learner’s needs. For some, in-person experiences lessen course difficulty. Whereas on-demand courses offer those who favor self-paced learning the time to absorb and test new concepts until they become integrated into the learner’s skill set.

Consider reviewing prerequisites and consulting with an educational consultant provided by the cybersecurity course provider to select the best course type and to gauge the level of difficulty of each course.

5. What are the best cybersecurity courses for beginners?

This answer depends on your specific goals. There are foundational courses that provide certifications that employers expect potential hires to have when seeking to land a cybersecurity role.

In this case, GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC) offers employers proof of your mastery of cybersecurity essentials and foundational concepts, terms, and strategies. Areas of this certification include cryptography, cloud security operations for AWS and Azure, Linux hardening, and Windows access controls.

6. What are the best advanced cybersecurity courses?

As certain technologies gain popularity, an organization’s attack surface grows. Cybersecurity pros who master the fundamentals can branch out into emerging branches of the cybersecurity threat matrix. For instance, as machine learning becomes more useful in enterprise settings, cybersecurity pros look to codify their understanding of securing systems leveraging the technology.

Other solid advanced courses include:

• Red Team, Blue Team, and Purple Team operations
• Cloud Security
• Security Management
• Advanced Leadership

7. What jobs can you get in cybersecurity?‎

The cybersecurity industry offers many chances for passionate learners to upskill and land roles in the industry. Many cybersecurity pros come from the broader world of IT and move from being network administrators and software engineers to cryptanalysts and bug bounty hunters. Here’s a list of cybersecurity jobs and their associated categories:

Offensive Operations

• Red Team member
• Pen Tester

Defensive Operations

• Counterespionage Analyst
• Cryptanalyst
• Cyber Intelligence Specialist
• Data Privacy Officer
• Data Security Analyst
• Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Security Specialist
• Information Security Analyst
• IT Security Architect
• Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst
• Security Awareness Training Specialist
• Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) Security Analyst

Leadership

• Chief Security Officer (CSO)
• Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
• Security Operations Center (SOC) Manager

Incident Response and Threat Hunting

• Threat Hunter
• Virus Technician
• Bug Bounty Hunter
• Ethical Hacker
• Incident Responder
• Malware Analyst
• Vulnerability Assessor

Threat Intel and Forensics

• Cyber Insurance Policy Specialist
• Cyber Operations Specialist
• Cybercrime Investigator
• Cybersecurity Lawyer
• Source Code Auditor

8. How can online courses help you learn cybersecurity?

While in-person learning experiences in cybersecurity offer networking opportunities, online courses provide learners with a focused environment for absorbing cybersecurity concepts and practicing their application online.

For the budget conscious, not having to travel makes online courses attractive. Learners also get the chance to engage with course materials at the times most convenient for them.

Another benefit, when course participants need one-on-one assistance, they can reach out to subject matter experts and/or course leaders only when needed. This independent learning format suits many in the cybersecurity industry.

Cybersecurity is a dynamic and ever-evolving field, requiring continuous learning and adaptation. Investing in cybersecurity courses can significantly enhance your skills, boost your career prospects, and help bridge the talent gap in this critical industry. Whether you’re just starting or looking to advance your expertise, there are courses tailored to meet your needs and ambitions. By understanding the various aspects of cybersecurity education, you can make informed decisions and set yourself on a path to success in the cybersecurity landscape.