Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Overall: I had the opportunity to take during the SANS Cyber Defense Initiative (CDI) event in Washington D.C. This December with one of the course authors.

Eric absolutely killed it, and was one of the reasons I signed up for this particular course. I had heard he was a great speaker and had lots of relevant pentester tales from his own company doing just that. I was pleasantly surprised to see that Eric’s stories really made each day for me. Eric’s pentest stories brought the concepts he was lecturing to life and really showcased their relevancy for me. Plus, I enjoy learning from a firehouse and Eric being from Boston area was able to keep up with that pace! Anime sonic x sub indo logan.

Dec 30, 2016 - SANS Web Application Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking Course Review (SEC542). 0.3 Suggestions to help in winning SEC542 CTF. Watching YouTube videos from tech conferences, and taking free online courses.

The overall 6-day course left a great impression on me, and would recommend it for anyone new to Web App pentesting. Vikrojka posteljnogo beljya polutorka. The CDI event of course added additional benefits such as night talks and access to sponsors for the swag run.

My Prior Experience: I’ve had a lot of exposure to the different vulnerabilities discussed, techniques, methods, and tools this course reviewed from previous self-study, Masters courses, reading InfoSec books, watching YouTube videos from tech conferences, and taking free online courses. Want to self-study or prepare for this course beforehand? Be sure to check out cybrary.it • • • • • Day 1: The first day was all about reconnaissance using active and passive methods for research and information gathering of the target. Some useful passive methods were discussed, however this is an entire course in itself using Open Source Intelligence or OSINT. Additional active methods were discussed as well such as DNS scans using a variety of different tools and methods. Some discussions were held on SSL/TLS ciphers and how to test for weak encryption.

Finally, we ended the day with the famous including how to identify it and exploit it. Overall, this was the most bland day that I had trouble diverting 100% of my attention to as I already knew most of it. Day 2: We really started getting into the fun stuff on the second day with a lot more hands on labs. Lots of command line tricks were discussed including netcat, nmap scanning tips, curl, grep, and bash scripting to aide in web application configuration testing.

There was also heavy discussion on actively scanning hosts using Burp and ZAP spidering tools. One of my favorite labs was directory brute forcing, ages ago I used the now defunct DirBuster tool. Come to find out that the ZAP tool now includes that functionality called ZAP Force Browse. We also discussed alternative methods to recreate the same functionality with different wordlists, generators, and tools. One really useful wordlist generator is the ruby based tool. Cewl crawls a website for text in HTML, Javascript, etc following links to a specified depth and generates unique words discovered.