Course Description

The CAST Pen Testing Specialist program is an advanced, hands-on penetration testing certification designed for cybersecurity professionals who want to master real-world offensive security skills. This course goes beyond theoretical learning and focuses on practical attack simulations, exploit development, vulnerability analysis, and enterprise-grade penetration testing techniques.

With a deep-dive into network, system, and application exploitation, the CAST Pen Testing Specialist course prepares learners to perform advanced security assessments in complex environments. The curriculum follows industry-standard methodologies and exposes students to modern attack vectors used by professional red teams and penetration testers.

Ideal for ethical hackers, pentesters, and security analysts, this course delivers high-value, skill-focused training to help learners simulate sophisticated cyberattacks and uncover critical vulnerabilities in real-world infrastructures.

 Key Highlights / Key Points  1. Advanced Real-World Penetration Testing

Learn advanced exploitation techniques, multi-stage attacks, privilege escalation, and lateral movement used in enterprise environments.

 2. Deep-Dive into Exploit Development

Understand how exploits are created, modified, and executed through buffer overflows, shellcode writing, memory corruption, and custom payload creation.

 3. Enterprise-Level Attack Simulation

Perform full-scope pentests involving networks, servers, applications, wireless environments, and cloud setups.

 4. Advanced Network & System Attacks

Master techniques such as ARP spoofing, MITM, port redirection, SMB attacks, firewall evasion, and protocol manipulation.

 5. Web Application Penetration Testing

Learn advanced web attacks including SQLi chaining, RCE, authentication bypass, logic flaws, SSRF, deserialization, and API exploitation.

 6. Hands-On Practical Labs

Train in real, attack-ready lab environments with immersive scenarios, vulnerable machines, and enterprise architectures.

 7. Privilege Escalation & Post-Exploitation

Gain expertise in Windows and Linux privilege escalation, persistence methods, credential harvesting, and system takeover.

 8. Wireless & Mobile Pentesting

Explore attacks on Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth, NFC, mobile OS vulnerabilities, and mobile app security testing.

 9. Professional Reporting & Documentation

Learn to create industry-standard pentest reports with clear findings, exploitation proof, risk ratings, and mitigation strategies.

 10. Ideal for Cybersecurity Career Growth

• Advanced Penetration Tester

• Cybersecurity Consultant

• Ethical Hacker

• Red Team Specialist

• Vulnerability Researcher