Courses Catalog

SEC642 is an expert-level course tailored for cybersecurity professionals seeking to deepen their skills in identifying, exploiting, and mitigating vulnerabilities in web applications. This course focuses on advanced techniques for penetration testing, ethical hacking, and exploitation, offering hands-on experience in assessing modern, complex web environments.

SEC564 course is designed to immerse students in the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by modern adversaries. By understanding the mindset and strategies of attackers, participants will learn how to conduct sophisticated penetration tests, simulate real-world attacks, and assess the security posture of organizations from a threat actor’s perspective. This course covers advanced topics in threat emulation, including attack simulations, red team engagements, and developing countermeasures to thwart malicious activities. By the end of the course, students will be adept at identifying vulnerabilities, exploiting weaknesses, and enhancing overall security resilience.

SEC460 is a comprehensive course designed to equip information security professionals with the skills necessary to effectively secure large-scale enterprise environments, including cloud infrastructures. The course focuses on building technical vulnerability assessment capabilities and introduces a holistic methodology tailored to address the challenges faced by organizations managing extensive systems.

SEC583: Crafting Packets is a one-day, lab-intensive course designed to teach security analysts, network engineers, and system administrators the powerful skill of crafting and manipulating packets. This capability is essential for testing firewall policies, IDS/IPS rules, host/server settings, application configurations, and more.

SEC579 is a comprehensive course designed to equip security professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to secure virtualized and software-defined infrastructures. As organizations increasingly adopt virtualization technologies and software-defined networking (SDN) to enhance efficiency and scalability, they also face new security challenges. This course addresses these challenges by providing in-depth coverage of securing virtual environments and SDN architectures.

SEC545 is a comprehensive course designed to equip security professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to secure cloud infrastructures effectively. As organizations increasingly migrate to cloud environments, understanding how to design, implement, and manage security measures in these settings becomes crucial.

So you popped a shell, now what? Windows Post Exploitation focuses on four major components of any adversary simulation or red team exercise: enumeration, persistence, privilege escalation, and lateral movement. Each of these steps will be covered in detail with hands-on labs in a custom Active Directory environment. In addition, students will learn several modern techniques to minimize opportunities for detection. This course goes beyond teaching popular tactics, techniques, and procedures. Instead, students will learn how to covertly gather and leverage information about a target environment to achieve their objectives efficiently. A review of each post-ex capability will include discussion on the OPSEC implications and publicly documented detection recommendations. Open-source SIEM rules from Sigma and Elastic will be used as a starting point for avoiding alert generation. No technique is undetectable; the key is understanding an environment’s detection capabilities and choosing the best course of action. Antisyphon: Windows Post Exploitation w/ Kyle Avery

This class is a distillation of what I’ve learned in my pentesting career about how to create a report that is both easy to read and hard to misunderstand. I will help you develop habits and support materials that simplify the work of reporting so you can get better results with less effort. Ask anyone who signs the checks which is worth more: a clear and actionable report from a tester with average technical skills, detailing how vulnerabilities were found and exploited, showing the impact of those exploits, and making concrete recommendations for improvement? Or a hastily-assembled list of compromised systems, thrown together by an elite hacker in the last hour of the contract after running a rampage through your networks? If you want to set yourself apart, work on your reporting skills. The hacks are ephemeral. The report lives forever. The hacks are fun – and they require your constant effort to keep current. The reporting is what makes this all a viable career – and once you know how to produce a good one, you can apply that skill endlessly as the computing world changes around you. This course helps you know what makes a good report good. It discusses the reporting mindset, and the foundational principles that always lead to a report you can be proud of, regardless of the tools you use for the test or for writing the report. We will look at some real reports as examples, and work together on ways to improve in the areas that are most important, as well as those that are most commonly neglected. Antisyphon: Reporting for Pentesters w/ BB King

As a cyber security defender and investigator, we often just get to analyze an environment that suffered a ransomware attack after the ransomware execution, where we are trying to make our way back in time to understand the scope and initial infection vectors of a breach. However, knowing how attackers operate and having an understanding of their tools can help tremendously to conduct a more effective analysis and response and ultimately lower the impact of such attacks. This is why in this workshop we will teach you how to perform the common steps of every phase in a ransomware attack scenario as the attacker, from initial infection to impact. We will set up a basic C2 infrastructure with PowerShell Empire, and execute attack phases such as initial access and reconnaissance, persistence mechanisms, privilege escalation, credential dumping, lateral movement, defense evasion, data exfiltration, and encryption with ransomware. In every step you will also learn about the fundamental concepts that are required to conduct the attack and defend against those including hands-on analysis using Splunk, Velociraptor and forensic tools as needed. In the last part of the workshop, you will learn best practices on how to effectively conduct investigations of the attacked environment using various tools that are part of the lab setup. Upon completion of the workshop, participants will have a better understanding of the steps ransomware threat actors take to achieve their objectives, as well as the best practices for detecting and ultimately preventing ransomware attacks. Antisyphon: Ransomware Attack Simulation and Investigation for Blue Teamers

For most security teams, high operational tempo (measured in dumpster fire lumens) incentivizes analysts to stick to well-tailored playbooks that prioritize remediation at the expense of proper incident scoping and root cause analysis. Though modern endpoint security products have significantly improved host visibility, most critical incidents will require the acquisition and analysis of additional endpoint data. This course focuses on four core investigative competencies: endpoint data collection, investigative triage, incident response pivots, and root cause analysis. Antisyphon: Advanced Endpoint Investigations

Active Defenses have been capturing a large amount of attention in the media lately. There are those who thirst for vengeance and want to directly attack the attackers. There are those who believe that any sort of active response directed at an attacker is wrong. We believe the answer is somewhere in between. In this class, you will learn how to force an attacker to take more moves to attack your network. These moves may increase your ability to detect them. You will learn how to gain better attribution as to who is attacking you and why. You will also find out how to get access to a bad guy’s system. And most importantly, you will find out how to do the above legally. Active Defense & Cyber Deception w/ John Strand

This is  a collection of Offensive Security’s curated cyber security learning paths These learning paths are designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of various cyber security domains, such as network penetration testing, web application security, wireless security, secure software development, and cloud security . Each learning path is tailored to suit the needs of cyber security enthusiasts, from beginners to advanced learners