The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals
The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals course is designed to equip security professionals with the fundamentals of the attacker mindset, including reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, and exploitation. The course covers a range of topics, including the attacker mindset, reconnaissance techniques, scanning and enumeration techniques, exploitation techniques, and more. With interactive lessons, hands-on labs, and real-world projects, learners will gain practical experience and confidence in identifying and mitigating cybersecurity threats.
- Price: $279.99
- Delivery Method: eLearning
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15+ LiveLab | 15+ Video tutorials | 30+ Minutes
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Outline
Lessons 1:
Introduction
- Who Is This Course For?
- What This Course Covers
Lessons 2:
What Is the Attacker Mindset?
- Using the Mindset
- The Attacker and the Mindset
- AMs Is a Needed Set of Skills
- Summary
Lessons 3:
Offensive vs. Defensive Attacker Mindset
- The Offensive Attacker Mindset
- Defensive Attacker Mindset
- Summary
Lessons 4:
The Attacker Mindset Framework
- Development
- Ethics
- Social Engineering and Security
- Summary
Lessons 5:
The Laws
- Law 1: Start with the End in Mind
- Law 2: Gather, Weaponize, and Leverage Information
- Law 3: Never Break Pretext
- Law 4: Every Move Made Benefits the Objective
- Summary
Lessons 6:
Curiosity, Persistence, and Agility
- Curiosity
- The Exercise: Part 1
- The Exercise: Part 2
- Persistence
- Skills and Common Sense
- Summary
Lessons 7:
Information Processing: Observation and Thinking Techniques
- Your Brain vs. Your Observation
- Observation vs. Heuristics
- Observation vs. Intuition
- Observing People
- Observation Exercise
- AMs and Observation
- Tying It All Together
- Critical and Nonlinear Thinking
- Vector vs. Arc
- Education and Critical Thinking
- Workplace Critical Thinking
- Critical Thinking and Other Psychological Constructs
- Nonlinear Thinking
- Tying Them Together
- Summary
Lessons 8:
Information Processing in Practice
- Reconnaissance
- Recon: Passive
- Recon: Active
- OSINT
- Signal vs. Noise
- Summary
Lessons 9:
Attack Strategy
- Attacks in Action
- Strategic Environment
- The Necessity of Engagement and Winning
- The Attack Surface
- AMs Applied to the Attack Vectors
- Summary
Lessons 10:
Psychology in Attacks
- Setting The Scene: Why Psychology Matters
- Ego Suspension, Humility & Asking for Help
- Introducing the Target-Attacker Window Model
- Target Psychology
- Thin-Slice Assessments
- Default to Truth
- Summary
Lessons 11:
Staying Protected—The Individual
- Attacker Mindset for Ordinary People
- Behavioral Security
- Amygdala Hijacking
- Analyze Your Attack Surface
- Summary
Lessons 12:
Staying Protected—The Business
- Testing and Red Teams
- The Complex Policy
- Antifragile
- The Full Spectrum of Crises
- Final Thoughts
- Summary
