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Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis for CompTIA Pentest+

by Ricardo Reimao

Identifying vulnerabilities allows you to find potential entry points in a penetration test. This course will teach you how to discover and analyze vulnerabilities needed for the CompTIA Pentest+ certification.

What you'll learn

Once you have enumerated all your targets, it is time to discover vulnerabilities in their underlying services. The more vulnerabilities you discover, the higher your chances of achieving a foothold in the exploitation phase. In this course, Vulnerability Discovery and Analysis for CompTIA Pentest+, you’ll learn to identify and analyze vulnerabilities in target systems. First, you’ll explore how to assess network vulnerabilities. Next, you’ll discover how to identifying gaps in web applications and containers. Finally, you’ll learn to perform the most common physical security attacks. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of vulnerability discovery needed for the CompTIA Pentest+ certification.

Table of contents

Discovering Network Vulnerabilities
28mins
Discovering Application Vulnerabilities
15mins
Physical Security
10mins

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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