Introduction to fundamental concepts. Here is what you need to get started.
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137 Sections
137 Sections
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8 Modules included
Fundamental
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Your first stop in Hack The Box Academy to become acquainted with the platform, its features, and its learning process.
8 Sections
Fundamental
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The learning process is one of the essential and most important components that is often overlooked. This module does not teach you techniques to learn but describes the process of learning adapted to the field of information security. You will learn to understand how and when we learn best and increase and improve your learning efficiency greatly.
20 Sections
Fundamental
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This module teaches the penetration testing process broken down into each stage and discussed in detail. We will cover many aspects of the role of a penetration tester during a penetration test, explained and illustrated with detailed examples. The module also covers pre-engagement steps like the criteria for establishing a contract with a client for a penetration testing engagement.
15 Sections
Easy
8 Sections
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Proper documentation is paramount during any engagement. The end goal of a technical assessment is the report deliverable which will often be presented to a broad audience within the target organization. We must take detailed notes and be very organized in our documentation, which will help us in the event of an incident during the assessment. This will also help ensure that our reports contain enough detail to illustrate the impact of our findings properly.
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Fundamental
21 Sections
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As an information security professional, a firm grasp of networking fundamentals and the required components is necessary. Without a strong foundation in networking, it will be tough to progress in any area of information security. Understanding how a network is structured and how the communication between the individual hosts and servers takes place using the various protocols allows us to understand the entire network structure and its network traffic in detail and how different communication standards are handled. This knowledge is essential to create our tools and to interact with the protocols.
21 Sections
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12 Sections
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Nmap is one of the most used networking mapping and discovery tools because of its accurate results and efficiency. The tool is widely used by both offensive and defensive security practitioners. This module covers fundamentals that will be needed to use the Nmap tool for performing effective network enumeration.
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Fundamental
30 Sections
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This module covers the fundamentals required to work comfortably with the Linux operating system and shell.
30 Sections
Fundamental
23 Sections
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This module covers the fundamentals of penetration testing and an introduction to Hack The Box.
23 Sections