Learning path · 5 modules

Penetration Tester

Build the networking, Linux, vulnerability-discovery, and applied offensive foundations for ethical testing.

Recommended sequence

Your route through the material.

This path produces 5 portfolio artifacts from the canonical lessons. Changing paths never creates duplicate progress or video copies.

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Module 1

Security Essentials

CIA triad, data states, threat actors, risk, shared responsibility, and cybersecurity careers.

SECURITYPLUS3 lessonsPortfolio project
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Module 2

System and Network Security

Addressing, switching, VLANs, routing, segmentation, wireless, WAN, and secure remote access.

SECURITYPLUS4 lessonsPortfolio project
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Module 3

Linux Essentials

Filesystem navigation, permissions, identity, packages, logs, networking tools, scripting, and scheduling.

SECURITYPLUS3 lessonsPortfolio project
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Module 6

Vulnerability and Risk Management

Attack-surface discovery, asset inventory, vulnerability prioritization, risk registers, and patching.

SECURITYPLUSCYSA3 lessonsPortfolio project
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Module 8

Applied Security Labs

Clean, instructor-only walkthroughs for lab setup, scanning, exploitation, remediation, and the final CTF.

PENTESTCYSAClean lab rebuild5 lessonsPortfolio project