Course Duration
4 Days

Cyber
Authorized Training

IT

Course cost:
£4,850.00

IT Certification Overview

This hands-on course focuses on advanced infrastructure security testing techniques, using real-world scenarios and offensive research. Delegates will learn to identify, exploit, and remediate vulnerabilities across on-premises and cloud environments. The course is designed to keep skills up to date with the latest threat landscape, providing practical experience through extensive lab exercises led by experienced penetration testers.

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Prerequisites

  • Intermediate knowledge of infrastructure application security (at least 2 years’ experience)
  • Competency with common command line syntax
  • Experience using virtual labs for penetration testing and/or offensive research

Target audience

  • Penetration testers and red teamers
  • Security consultants and architects
  • Network administrators with security experience
  • CSIRT/SOC teams and blue teamers
  • Security and IT managers and team leads
  • In-house security teams from intermediate to pro-level
  • Other security and IT practitioners and managers seeking to understand the current threat landscape

Learning Objectives

Delegates will learn how to:

  • Think and behave like an advanced, real-world threat actor
  • Identify and exploit commonly used vulnerabilities that have recently caused damage and disruption
  • Deploy the latest and most common network infrastructure and cloud hacking techniques, including novel methods undetectable by scanners
  • Analyse vulnerabilities within their own organisation and customise hacking techniques in response
  • Apply a wide range of hacks for Windows, Linux, Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and software development systems
  • Remediate as well as attack weaknesses in infrastructure
  • Use lab-based exercises to reinforce practical skills

Adversary Ops Infrastructure Edition Course Content

Reconnaissance and Perimeter Compromise

  • Advanced OSINT and organisation footprinting
  • Attack surface mapping and asset identification
  • Exploiting vulnerable VPN appliances
  • Configuration extraction and credential recovery
  • Credential stuffing and external service abuse
  • IPv4/IPv6 service discovery and enumeration

Internal Network Pivoting (Linux)

  • Linux attack surface enumeration and misconfigurations
  • Kerberos authentication
  • Restricted shells breakouts
  • SSH-based access and lateral escalation
  • Breaking hardened web servers
  • Local privilege escalation (SUID/SGID, PAM, sudo, kernel)
  • Persistence techniques (Linux Capabilities)
  • Pivoting via SSH tunnelling and internal service access

Container Breakout

  • Breaking and abusing Docker
  • Breaking out of Kubernetes containers

Lateral Movement and Pivoting

  • Persistence techniques and credential harvesting
  • Pivoting via SSH tunnelling and internal service access

Cross-Network Pivoting

  • VLAN segmentation bypass and VLAN hopping techniques
  • Switch spoofing and double tagging attacks
  • Network reconnaissance (CDP/LLDP, routing visibility)
  • CI/CD pipeline compromise and pipeline poisoning
  • Supply chain and dependency confusion attacks
  • Database exploitation (MSSQL/PostgreSQL)
  • Observability platform compromise and credential extraction

Identity Compromise (Windows)

  • Windows enumeration and policy/restriction analysis
  • RDP-based access and desktop/kiosk breakouts
  • AppLocker bypass and proxied execution
  • Offensive PowerShell and Offsec development
  • AMSI bypass techniques
  • AV evasion techniques
  • OPSEC and defence evasion
  • Post-exploitation and persistence techniques

Enterprise Pivot and Active Directory Exploitation

  • Active Directory delegation reviews and exploitation (Windows 2022 Server)
  • Resource-based constrained delegation
  • ACL/ACE misconfigurations and shadow credentials
  • Kerberos attacks (Kerberoasting, AS-REP, Pass-the-Ticket)
  • Ticket forgery (Golden, Silver, Diamond)
  • OPSEC and defence evasion under detection constraints
  • Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) abuse
  • Cross domain and forest attacks
  • Pivoting and port forwarding across enterprise environments
  • Persistence and backdooring techniques (Golden and Diamond Ticket)

Cloud Hacking

  • AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP specific attacks
  • Storage misconfigurations
  • Credentials, APIs, and token abuse
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Container as a Service (CaaS), and serverless exploitation
  • Azure AD attacks

Exams and assessments

There is no formal exam for this course.

Hands-on learning

  • Extensive lab-based exercises, making up approximately 80% of the course
  • Individual access to virtual lab environments for practical hacking experience
  • Scenario-led, research-based learning reflecting real-world threat actor behaviour
  • 30 days of lab access post-course completion for continued practice

Upcoming Dates

Dates and locations are available on request. Please contact us for the latest schedule.

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