This hands-on course is designed for professionals interested in upgrading their ethical hacking, vulnerability assessment, and blue team defense skills.

Course participants should have a baseline knowledge of TCP/IP networking concepts and basic Linux command line skills.

This 3-credit course helps students prepare for the CompTIA PenTest+ exam. For current CompTIA certification holders, students completing this course can earn 10 CompTIA Continuing Education Units (CEUs).

This course will introduce participants to professional penetration testing by teaching offensive tactics and the appropriate methodologies and responsibilities for ethically attacking systems. Through hands-on lab activities, students will use professional tools, methodologies, and practices to perform reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, risk mitigation, exploit development, target penetration, and reporting. This training aligns with NICE framework and NCAE standards.

Instructor is Justin Forbes, an accomplished cybersecurity professional with over 10 years of Penetration Testing experience and over five years of experience training Penetration Testers. He has worked at the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance (NCFTA), CERT, SecureWorks, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). He is passionate about the Pittsburgh information security community. In addition to delivering talks and workshops at Pittsburgh BSides and the Three Rivers Information Security Symposium (TRISS), he runs a monthly InfoSec meetup group named BarSides in the Pittsburgh area. He earned his bachelor's degree in Information Technology and master's degree in Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh.

For questions or additional information contact: kristi.farrow@ccbc.edu

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