Professional Security Training

Intensive, practical training courses designed for security professionals working in time-constrained, real-world environments.

High-Impact Security Training

Our comprehensive training programs range from foundational courses for newcomers to advanced techniques for experienced professionals. Whether you're starting your cybersecurity journey or enhancing your expertise under pressure, we have the right program for you.

Ethical Hacking Foundations Programme

3 Days

Audience: Junior to early-stage practitioners looking to build a strong foundation in penetration testing and ethical hacking principles and methodologies.

Goal: Provide a well-rounded, comprehensive base of knowledge and hands-on experience for those seeking a career in cyber security — establishing fundamental skills and building confidence for professional practice.

Course Structure & Goals

Our aim is to give you the skills, knowledge, and techniques required for a successful career in penetration testing and ethical hacking. While our courses are not tied to any one qualification, we are delighted when our training helps candidates succeed in exams such as CE+ Lead Assessor, CSTM and more.

Training Approach:
  • Practical Foundation: Learn the core skills every penetration tester must master.
  • Guided by Experts: Build confidence with mentoring from experienced practitioners.
  • Hands-On: Every day features labs, challenges, and real-world exercises.
  • Future-Proof: Gain knowledge that supports both professional certifications and practical work in the field.

Comprehensive Curriculum (Example Focus Areas)

  • Setting up and using multiple operating systems and security-focused distros.
  • Understanding and working with key network protocols.
  • Network scanning and device enumeration.
  • Service enumeration and fingerprinting for deeper insight.
  • Vulnerability analysis and practical exploitation techniques.
  • Basics of cryptography and its role in security.
  • Web application hacking fundamentals and techniques.
  • Effective report writing for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Professional skills: working in cyber and collaborating on engagements.
  • The laws and regulations around ethical hacking.
  • Password security: cracking, storage, and defence.
Dynamic Learning:

Training rigs are dynamically configured to varying difficulty levels, ensuring each learner faces an appropriate challenge. Instructors will assign tasks to strengthen weak areas, improve workflows, and hone practical skills.

Learning Outcomes

  • Comprehensive Foundation: Master core penetration testing methodologies and techniques.
  • Practical Skills: Hands-on experience with industry-standard tools and environments.
  • Professional Readiness: Understanding of scoping, planning, risk management, and ethical considerations.
  • Career Preparation: Knowledge that supports both professional certifications and real-world engagements.
Programme Result:

By the end of this programme, participants will have a solid, practical foundation in ethical hacking — ready to continue towards professional certifications or directly apply their skills in real-world engagements.

Advanced Hacking: Web Application Pathway

3 Days

Audience: Practitioners with 2+ years of testing experience, seeking to sharpen their speed, efficiency, and breadth of approaches.

Goal: Consolidate knowledge, identify and fill gaps, and refine workflows under challenging/time-limited testing conditions — moving from competent practitioner to advanced practitioner.

Course Structure

Daily Format:
  • Morning group discussions led by the trainer on advanced practitioner skills, common shortfalls, and the realities of testing under pressure.
  • Afternoon hands-on workshops, tailored to attendee needs, with time-boxed exercises designed to improve speed, adaptability, and workflow optimisation.
Approach:
  • Content is flexible and guided by participant backgrounds.
  • Collaboration and interaction encouraged — sharing "what works" in real tests.
  • Every exercise is framed around working efficiently, adapting tools, and producing usable results under constraints.

Web Application Pathway (Example Focus Areas)

  • Testing methodology under time limits: prioritisation and triage of high-value targets.
  • Tool efficiency: choosing the right tool for the situation, fallback methods when the preferred option fails.
  • Exploiting common vulnerabilities quickly (injection, XSS, session flaws, IDOR).
  • Dealing with databases through application flaws.
  • APIs and modern applications: fast enumeration and data handling.
  • Advanced attacks: serialization flaws, XXE, NoSQL injection.
  • Optimising workflows for decoding/encoding data and handling tokens.
  • OWASP Top Ten and beyond: identifying exploitable patterns quickly.
Suggested Exercises:

Mini timed assessments, comparing manual vs tool-assisted exploitation, chained attacks under pressure.

Core Themes

  • Speed and workflow optimisation: how to test effectively with limited time and resources.
  • Multiple approaches: ensuring participants can adapt if Tool A fails (manual methods, alternative scripts, or creative problem solving).
  • Top-up mentoring: filling knowledge gaps and reinforcing weaker areas.
  • Advanced practitioner skills: communication, reporting, and leading by example under pressure.

Advanced Hacking: Infrastructure Pathway

3 Days

Audience: Practitioners with 2+ years of testing experience, seeking to sharpen their speed, efficiency, and breadth of approaches.

Goal: Consolidate knowledge, identify and fill gaps, and refine workflows under challenging/time-limited testing conditions — moving from competent practitioner to advanced practitioner.

Course Structure

Daily Format:
  • Morning group discussions led by the trainer on advanced practitioner skills, common shortfalls, and the realities of testing under pressure.
  • Afternoon hands-on workshops, tailored to attendee needs, with time-boxed exercises designed to improve speed, adaptability, and workflow optimisation.
Approach:
  • Content is flexible and guided by participant backgrounds.
  • Collaboration and interaction encouraged — sharing "what works" in real tests.
  • Every exercise is framed around working efficiently, adapting tools, and producing usable results under constraints.

Infrastructure Pathway (Example Focus Areas)

  • Revisiting the basics with a focus on speed (quick port and protocol enumeration, fast triage of services).
  • Approaches to privilege escalation: scripted tools vs manual checks, how to adapt when the usual toolset isn't available.
  • Pivoting and tunnelling: multiple methods, workflow optimisation.
  • Advanced exploitation: moving quickly from foothold to useful access.
  • Command line efficiency: scripting, automation, parsing outputs under time constraints.
  • Reporting and wash-up meetings: how to quickly turn test notes into structured findings.
  • Mentoring on scoping, risk management, and ethics in pressured testing scenarios.
Suggested Exercises:

Time-boxed service enumeration, rapid foothold → escalation → reporting cycles, comparing different toolchains for the same task.

Core Themes

  • Speed and workflow optimisation: how to test effectively with limited time and resources.
  • Multiple approaches: ensuring participants can adapt if Tool A fails (manual methods, alternative scripts, or creative problem solving).
  • Top-up mentoring: filling knowledge gaps and reinforcing weaker areas.
  • Advanced practitioner skills: communication, reporting, and leading by example under pressure.

Why This Approach Works

Every day starts with mentor-led discussion that frames the skills of an advanced practitioner.

Every afternoon is hands-on, time-boxed, and workflow-focused for maximum practical learning.

Content is flexible: trainer can swap in examples depending on where attendees need the most top-up.

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