A penetration tester subjects a system or a range of systems to real-life security tests. The penetration tester can perform specified attacks in high detail depending on the objectives sought. Advanced techniques, tools, and utilities are used to achieve this by a security consultant. Generally, this exercise is aimed at evaluating the level and effectiveness of a systems hardening to advise on the existing vulnerabilities.

The need for highly skilled individuals to harden systems as a security measure is paramount. This is due to the rising cyber incidents that are posing threats to business environments, different organizations, and even critical infrastructure affecting a country.

Key benefits of taking the @ilabAfrica Certificate in Penetration Testing course:

Certification objectives include but are not limited to:

• Basics of cybersecurity
• Ethical hacking methodologies
• Penetration – testing strategies
• The legal issues surrounding cybersecurity

The course trains participants to successfully leverage and deploy architectural frameworks and design robust, secure systems that meet current and future business needs, configure and operate secure systems and be successful professionals in the field of cybersecurity.

In addition, successful participants will get hands-on experience from different lab setup done by our well experienced instructors and partners.

Upon successful completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Understand the basics of cybersecurity
• Build their own penetration testing lab
• Write scripts using python and bash
• Understand the process of penetration testing
• Understand the cyber laws of Kenya
• Perform digital forensics analysis
• Understand ethical hacking methodologies and techniques