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Engagement Management for CompTIA Pentest+

by Ricardo Reimao

This course will teach you engagement management skills needed for the CompTIA Pentest+ certification.

What you'll learn

Engagement management is one of the most critical skills for a penetration tester. It allows you to conduct an assessment following a professional approach. In this course, Engagement Management for CompTIA Pentest+, you’ll learn to identify testing requirements, assets in scope, legal boundaries, limitations, rules of engagement, and much more. This is the first course of the CompTIA Pentest+ certification series.

First, you’ll explore all the pre-engagement tasks in a penetration testing exercise. Next, you’ll discover how to gather all the information you need for the tests and how to plan and scope your assessment. Finally, you’ll learn how to write proper findings and recommendations for the findings you observed.

When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of engagement management needed for the CompTIA Pentest+ Exam (PT0-003).

Table of contents

Pre-engagement Tasks
25mins
Assessment Frameworks
11mins
Collaboration and Communication
12mins
Reporting
17mins
Remediations and Recommendations
12mins

About the author

Ricardo Reimao

Ricardo is a Cybersecurity Consultant based in Toronto (Canada). He has 14+ years of IT experience, 10 of them in the IT Security field. His main interests are: SIEM solutions (IBM QRadar), Enterprise Security Risk, Penetration Testing, Security processes/procedures and Network Security.

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