Manual Vulnerability Course

This course will look at how to manually verify the existence of vulnerabilities on a host or group of hosts.

1 hour, 3 minutes

Course description

In this course, we will look at how to manually verify the existence of several different vulnerabilities with a wide array of tools. We will look at Metasploit, nmap, netcat and Wireshark. We go over banner-grabbing, nmap scripts, Metasploit scanning modules and capturing cleartext traffic.

Syllabus

Manual Verification - Metasploit

Video - 00:34:00
In this video, we will look at how to manually verify the existence of several different vulnerabilities with Metasploit.
Manual Verification

Video - 00:29:00
In this video, we will look at how to manually verify the existence of several different vulnerabilities with a wide array of tools.

Meet the author

Nikolas Behar

Nikolas is a Sr. Security Consultant and Adjunct Professor of Cybersecurity focused on advanced adversary simulation, penetration testing and vulnerability management. He has vast experience across many information security domains, such as cyber defense, cyber risk, security strategy, offensive security, security awareness and security operations.

Nikolas has worked at several organizations throughout Southern California and has been a consultant at PwC, Accenture and Deloitte. He primarily lectures on ethical hacking, digital forensics and information assurance. He has also sat on several information security panels, spoken at several information security conferences, and appears on news outlets to discuss information security-related issues.

Nikolas received his M.Sc in information security from Royal Holloway, the University of London and his B.A. in political science from UC, San Diego. He holds OSCP, CISSP and CISA certifications.

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