Security Testing Essential Training

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This course is a part of Improve Your Application Security Testing Skills, a 7-course series from LinkedIn Learning.

To provide your organization with confidence, you need to perform testing to prove it's secure. However, not all security testing is the same. A risk assessment is not a vulnerability assessment; a penetration test won't measure compliance. For a successful career, a security analyst needs to have an understanding of the many different types of security testing and know when and how to implement them. This course provides the resources you need to set up a testing environment, plan assessments, identify targets, and begin executing security tests. Instructor Jerod Brennen also helps you analyze test results and draft a report of your findings. Plus, see popular testing frameworks tools in action, include Nmap, Nessus, Wireshark, Lynis, OWASP ZAP, Aircrack-ng, and hashcat, as run on a Kali Linux virtual machine.

Contents:

• Introduction
• 1. Understanding Security Assessments
• 2. Your Testing Environment
• 3. Planning Your Assessment
• 4. Review Techniques
• 5. Identifying Your Targets
• 6. Vulnerability Validation
• 7. Additional Considerations
• Conclusion