Advanced Penetration Testing (APT): Pentesting High Security Environments course is a five-day intensive that focuses attacking and defending highly secured environments such as 3-letter agencies, DoD, financial organizations, federal organizations, and large companies.

This is NOT your normal Ethical Hacking course. You won't be attacking unpatched Windows 2000 Servers, and you won't be learning a bunch of outdated tools like most Ethical Hacking courses.

In APT, you will be learning how to attack new operating systems such as Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and the latest Linux servers. All of these servers will be patched, and hardened. Both Network and Host-based Intrusion Detection/Preventions systems (IDS/IPS) will be in place as well. The learning curve is high, but the rewards are astronomical.

The course starts with attacking heavily protected environments from the outside and dealing with things like Load Balancing, Deep Packet Inspection, and Network-Based IDS/IPS. Next is attacking web applications and dealing with common application security measures in PHP/ASP.NET, and Web Application Firewalls.

Then the course moves on to attacking from the LAN, dealing with NAC solutions, locked down workstations/GPOs, and Host-Based IDS/IPS. Then finally the last section of the course covers gaining control of Active Directory.

Pentesting High Security Environments is NOT a death by powerpoint course. Over 80% of class is hands-on hacking labs.

Students that are Network/System Administrators with three or more years experience working in environments such as financial institutions, DoD networks, or similar high security environments will benefit greatly from this course. It is however primarily designed for Network/Web Application Penetration testers that are looking for the little tips and tricks that will help them better attack high security environments.