Pen tester launches infosec bootcamp

A Melbourne penetration tester has created a boot camp beside a series of free hacking exercises to assist security professionals sharpen their skills.

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PentesterLab offers students and professionals a series of vulnerable web applications to hack in wheel with instructional resources.

The site was recently upgraded with a burgeoning twelve week boot camp course that tasks aspirant security professionals with sensible practical and hacking exercises, and points them to analysis tools.

Louis Nyffenegger created the site to share a number of the exercises he created as a part of his training courses.

"The exercises ar meant for anyone who wants within the penetration testing wagon or needs to start out learning and understanding security," Nyffenegger said.

 "My main goal is to show folks security the proper way: active training with elaborated explanations and perform exploitation manually.

"Some exercises ar a lot of advanced and target the experienced penetration tester [whereas] everybody will use bootcamp : students, developers, system administrators."

Nyffenegger same the boot camp is meant to assist geeks navigate the embarrassment of existing security resources with the conception that it's higher to 1st learn about a given technology before jab it for security holes.

The courses ar free for individual use and underneath under license for corporates who want to integrate it into their security training.

It was the same as exploit-exercises, a series of security tests developed in wheel that hones skills in privilege escalation, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, debugging and reverse engineering.