Offensive Security and Ethical Hacking Practitioner

A hands-on offensive security programme covering authorisation and scope, reconnaissance, web and network testing, privilege escalation and reporting. All practical work is performed against your own lab environment. Nothing in this programme reproduces a certification body's question bank or material, and nothing here authorises testing systems you do not own.

12 weeks 65 guided hours Intermediate to Advanced

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No account needed to buy. Pay with your card and we create your student account from the email you enter, with this programme ready inside it for twelve months.

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What you will achieve

Set up a lawful, isolated testing lab
Define scope, rules of engagement and authorisation in writing
Find and evidence common web and network weaknesses
Explain privilege escalation and lateral movement in practical terms
Write findings with severity, evidence and remediation a team can use

Entry guidance

— Comfortable with the Linux command line
— Basic networking: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP

Original Mai Studies learning material. This is a professional completion programme, not a regulated qualification or university accreditation.

Programme syllabus

3 applied modules

Lessons: 6
Assessed tasks: 3
Practice questions: 36
Timed mock papers: 2

Authorisation, scope and the lab

The legal and practical groundwork that separates a tester from an offender.

2 lessons · 12 practice questions · 1 assessed task

1. Permission in writing, or not at all21 min study · 3 learning objectives · practical activity
Authorisation, scope and rules of engagement, and why they protect you.
2. Building an isolated lab21 min study · 3 learning objectives · practical activity
Somewhere you can break things safely and repeatably.

Engagement setup pack — marked out of 100, pass at 80%

Finding weaknesses

Reconnaissance, web application testing and network testing against your own targets.

2 lessons · 12 practice questions · 1 assessed task

1. Reconnaissance and attack surface21 min study · 3 learning objectives · practical activity
Most of the work happens before you send a single exploit.
2. Web and network weaknesses in practice21 min study · 3 learning objectives · practical activity
Injection, broken access control, weak configuration - found and evidenced.

Lab test with evidence — marked out of 100, pass at 80%

Escalation and reporting

From a foothold to impact, and from impact to a report someone acts on.

2 lessons · 12 practice questions · 1 assessed task

1. Privilege escalation and lateral movement21 min study · 3 learning objectives · practical activity
Why one small weakness becomes a serious incident.
2. Writing findings people act on21 min study · 3 learning objectives · practical activity
Severity, evidence, business impact and remediation.

Full engagement report — marked out of 100, pass at 80%

Timed mock papers

Offensive Security and Ethical Hacking Practitioner: timed mock paper 1 — 180 minutes, 30 objective questions plus written and computational tasks
Offensive Security and Ethical Hacking Practitioner: timed mock paper 2 — 180 minutes, 30 objective questions plus written and computational tasks

Lesson pages, assessed tasks and mock papers open the moment you join this programme. Teaching material is studied online; the notes you write are yours to download.

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