VAPT Remediation

Learn Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing (VAPT) techniques and how to patch critical vulnerabilities effectively. Gain hands-on experience in securing modern applications.

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VAPT Remediation
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VAPT Curriculum

  • Vulnerability Assessment (VA) vs Penetration Testing (PT): Goals & Differences
  • The Pentesting Lifecycle: Planning, Discovery, Exploitation & Reporting
  • Legal Frameworks & Ethics: Rules of Engagement (RoE) & Scoping Documents
  • Compliance Drivers: Mapping VAPT to PCI-DSS, SOC 2 & ISO 27001
  • Installing Kali Linux & Setting Up VirtualBox/VMware Environment
  • Setting Up Target Environments: Metasploitable, DVWA & OWASP Juice Shop
  • Introduction to Command Line Tools: Bash, Terminal Navigation & Scripting
  • Project: Building a Complete VAPT Lab with Attacker & Target Machines
  • Passive Reconnaissance: WHOIS, DNS Lookups & Google Dorking
  • Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Shodan, Maltego & theHarvester
  • Active Scanning with Nmap: Host Discovery, Port Scanning & Service Detection
  • Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) for Advanced Vulnerability Detection
  • Subdomain Enumeration: Amass, Sublist3r & Certificate Transparency Logs
  • Technology Fingerprinting: Wappalyzer, WhatWeb & BuiltWith
  • DNS Zone Transfers & Reverse DNS Enumeration
  • Project: Conducting a Full Reconnaissance Report on a Target Domain
  • Vulnerability Scanning with Nessus: Configuration, Scanning & Reporting
  • OpenVAS: Open-source Vulnerability Scanner Setup & Usage
  • CVSS Scoring: Understanding Base, Temporal & Environmental Scores
  • Interpreting Scan Results: True Positives vs False Positives Analysis
  • Static Application Security Testing (SAST) with SonarQube
  • Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) with OWASP ZAP
  • Monitoring CVE Databases & Exploit-DB for New Vulnerabilities
  • Project: Scanning a Corporate Network Simulation & Generating a Risk Report
  • Metasploit Framework: Modules, Payloads, Handlers & Post-exploitation
  • Exploiting SMB with EternalBlue (MS17-010) on Metasploitable
  • FTP, SSH & Telnet Service Exploitation Techniques
  • Password Attacks: Brute Force with Hydra & Cracking with John the Ripper
  • Hashcat: GPU-accelerated Password Hash Cracking
  • Man-in-the-Middle (MitM): ARP Poisoning with Ettercap & Bettercap
  • Wireless Network Attacks: WPA2 Cracking with Aircrack-ng
  • Client-side Attacks: Malicious Documents & Browser Exploitation
  • Project: Exploiting a Vulnerable Server using Metasploit & Gaining Root Access
  • SQL Injection (SQLi): Manual Testing & Exploitation with SQLMap
  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): Reflected, Stored & DOM-based XSS
  • Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) & Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
  • Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) & Broken Access Control
  • Burp Suite Professional: Proxy Interception, Repeater, Intruder & Scanner
  • API Security Testing: REST, GraphQL & SOAP Endpoint Vulnerabilities
  • Session Management Testing: JWT Manipulation, Cookie Theft & OAuth Flaws
  • File Upload Vulnerabilities & Remote Code Execution (RCE)
  • Project: Full Web Application Pentest on OWASP Juice Shop with Burp Suite
  • Windows Privilege Escalation: UAC Bypass, Token Impersonation & DLL Hijacking
  • Linux Privilege Escalation: SUID Binaries, Kernel Exploits & Cron Job Abuse
  • Pivoting: Meterpreter Port Forwarding & SSH Tunneling into Internal Networks
  • Lateral Movement: Pass-the-Hash, Pass-the-Ticket & PSExec
  • Data Exfiltration: DNS Tunneling, Steganography & Encrypted Channels
  • Maintaining Persistence: Backdoors, Scheduled Tasks & Registry Keys
  • Antivirus & EDR Evasion: Payload Obfuscation & In-memory Execution
  • Project: Pivoting Through a Multi-subnet Lab to Compromise a Domain Controller
  • Patch Management: Prioritizing & Deploying Critical Security Patches
  • System Hardening: Implementing CIS Benchmarks for Windows & Linux
  • Network Hardening: Firewall Rules, Network Segmentation & ACLs
  • Web Application Remediation: Input Validation, Parameterized Queries & CSP Headers
  • Verification Testing: Re-scanning & Manual Validation Post-fix
  • Risk-based Remediation: Aligning Fixes with Business Impact & Asset Criticality
  • Developing Secure Coding Standards for Development Teams
  • Project: Remediating All Vulnerabilities Found & Conducting Verification Retest
  • Writing the Executive Summary: Translating Technical Risk into Business Language
  • Technical Report Structure: Findings, Evidence, Risk Rating & Recommendations
  • Organizing Evidence: Screenshots, PoC Code, Logs & Attack Chains
  • Presenting to C-level Executives vs Development Teams
  • Building a Remediation Roadmap: Short-term Fixes vs Long-term Strategy
  • Automating Report Generation with Tools & Templates
  • Career Paths: OSCP, CEH, PNPT & Bug Bounty Hunting
  • Project: Conducting a Full End-to-End VAPT & Delivering a Professional Report