Welcome to this course titled practical ethical hacking.
I am your instructor heat atoms and I'm excited for this journey that we're going to be taking together.
So a really quick.
Who am I.
I am a husband hacker military veteran etc. I am a former accountant that is turned into a security
geek and I own my own penetration testing company called TCM security.
So I'm known online by the personality of the cyber mentor.
I am a twitch streamer a YouTube ba.
I have Twitter.
I'm on the social media is OK and I love teaching ethical hacking concepts.
I love ethical hacking and penetration testing and I'm excited for this course.
So why this course.
What makes this course different than all the other courses that are out there.
Well this is geared towards practical experience.
I'm taking you down the road of a penetration testers slash ethical hacker.
I don't want to teach you unnecessary tools.
I don't want to give you things that you're not going to need to know.
And we're really going to touch base on a lot of things that I just don't see covered anywhere else.
I'm going to explain things to you like a five year old and I want you to pick them up and understand
the concepts not just fly through tools and really we're going to cover so many cool topics here.
One that I'm really excited about is active directory penetration testing which I don't see covered
anywhere.
And that's something that is such a critical knowledge point that you need to know to be a penetration
tester such ethical hacker.
And nobody talks about it.
So speaking of let's really quickly talk about the topics that are going to be covered in this course.
So right now we are in the introduction.
We're going to talk about effective note keeping and why you should take good notes never going to go
into networking Linux and python.
And we're going to cover those because they are important for your foundations to be a good ethical
hacker and penetration tester.
So once we get out of the foundational section of this course we're going to talk about external network
hacking which is what you see in most courses.
Then we're gonna move on to this Active Directory exploitation where we build out an Active Directory
lab and we exploit it.
If you have no idea of Active Directory is that's OK.
We're going to cover that later on in the course.
But it is so fun and such a great experience.
I'm really looking forward to that.
On top of that we're going to talk about Web application exploitation.
We'll talk about common attacks that you're going to see.
We'll talk through wireless exploitation.
We'll also talk there report writing and common legal documentation.
I'm going to walk you through the documents that I have when I talked to a client on sales meetings
and we'll cover report writing on how to write a report and I'll provide you with a sample report and
show you what a real pen test report looks like.
Finally we're going to wrap up the course with career advice.
So I'm going to stop here.
One thing I'm going to say right now is go to the bonus video.
Please go to the bonus video first.
Why I say that is because due to terms and policy on you to me I cannot share personal links with you
one that I want to share with you is a discord channel that is going to be utilized for this course
specifically we have 4000 people in the discord already.
I just want you to be aware that resources available in case you have any sort of troubleshooting issues
or questions related to the course etc..
So please go check out that video first before you move on to the next video.
Just so you have the resources available to you when you are going through this course.
Otherwise I look forward to seeing you in this course in growing with you through this course.
And I really do hope you enjoy it.
So let's move on into the next video.