eLearnSecurity Certified Professional Penetration Tester (eCPPTv2)
Join IT professionals around the world by passing eLearnSecurity's Certified Professional Penetration Tester certification. The certification involves in-depth penetration testing that simulates a real world scenario, requires you to prove your analytical skills with a thorough security write-up, and is hand-graded by a security professional. This intermediate level certification proves to employers and superiors alike that you have the knowledge necessary to run point on a host of penetration testing engagements.
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The eLearnSecurity Certified Professional Penetration Tester (eCPPTv2) is a 100% practical certification focused on allowing you to prove your penetration testing skills through real world scenarios delivered to you via hands-on labs. Once you've proven your skillset by successfully attacking a client's system, you prove your knowledge through a professional vulnerabilities and recommendation report.
How does the eCPPTv2 do this?
Unlike other intermediate exams, the eCPPTv2 focuses you on thinking like a penetration tester from beginning to end. Through a series of scenarios, you will be challenged to prove that you have the capability of exploiting vulnerabilities on a variety of systems. Utilizing INE's exclusive VPN lab experience, you have the opportunity to dive into these scenarios from the comfort of your home machine. And the experience of writing a professional report is unparalleled, providing you with an opportunity to prove your skills to current and future employers.
eCPPTv2 for Teams
Looking to ensure your team members can achieve their objective and keep your critical infrastructure safe? The eCPPTv2 provides you with the peace of mind to know your team members can successfully complete penetration testing engagements including technical write ups and remediation plans. This is a must have certification for any team members who need to present findings to colleagues or superiors.
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eCPPT Learning Objectives
eLearnSecurity by INE certifications are designed to challenge you to think through cyber security challenges like an analyst, rather than simply a series of multiple choice questions. The eCPPT doubles down on this by challenging you to solve real-world labs and then create a bespoke technical write up that includes why the systems could be compromised and how to solve the issues that allowed the exploit occur. This exam is not for the faint of heart, providing you with up to 7 days to complete the labs and another 7 days for your writeup. To pass this exam, you need to prove mastery over a multitude of areas including Network Pentesting, Web Application Pentesting, WiFi Pentesting and System Security. In order to accomplish this mastery, you must have an array of toolkits including Privilege Escalation, Exploit Development and Information Gathering and Reconnaissance. INE's Pentester Professional learning path provides you with all the knowledge necessary to crush this exam.
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Vulnerability Assessments of Networks and Web Applications
Prove you understand how to analyze networking and web application vulnerabilities and how to create attack vectors.
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Advanced Exploitation with Metasploit
Metasploit is one of the most important tools in the hacker's toolkit. Prove you understand how to utilize it in advanced attack scenarios.
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Performing Attacks in Pivoting
Prove your ability to jump from system to system in INE's advanced networked lab platform.
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Web Application Manual Exploitation
Show off your exploitation skills by attacking a web application with your own manually written exploits.
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Information Gathering and Reconnaissance
Prove your understand the softer skills in ethical hacking by gathering information necessary for a successful attack.
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Privilege Escalation and Persistence
Gain access to administrator or root and create backdoors to continue your access to the exploited machine.
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Exploit Development
Build exploits that take advantage of system vulnerabilities.
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Advanced Reporting and Remdiation
Prove your ability to write technical reports with remediation plans.
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Penetration Testing Professional
If you are looking to become a professional penetration tester or IT Security personnel where your job relies on your ability to defend and assist an organization in assessing and mitigating infrastructure and web application risks, then the Penetration Testing Professional Learning Path will help you get there. Starting this learning path, you should have a basic understanding of networks, internet protocols, IT security issues, and penetration testing concepts, as well as the ability to read and understand code. This learning path builds strong foundations by giving theoretical lessons reinforced with practical exercises, covering topics like system, network, web app, and wi-fi security. Topics covered include Network Pentesting, Web Application Pentesting, Wifi Pentesting, System Security, Architecture fundamentals, Buffer overflow, and Shellcoding, Windows and Linux exploitation, and more. The Penetration Testing Professional Learning path also prepares you for the eCPPTv2 exam and certification.
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How does the eCPPT Stack Up?
The eCCPT is amongst the only intermediate level exams to provide you with real world scenarios and challenge you to put together a technical write up with remediation plan.
eCCPTv2 eLearnSecurity Certified Professional Penetration Tester | CompTIA Pentest+ | OSCP Offensive Security Certified Penetration Tester | CompTIA Security+ | |
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Objectives The purpose of the exam and what you'll accomplish if you pass. | Prove your intermediate pentesting skills including the ability to write technical documentation and remediation plans. | Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment | Real World-based with a lab and submitted report | Core cybersecurity skills required by security and network administrators. |
Time Limit The amount of time you have to complete the certification exam. | 7 Days for Lab, 7 Days for Write-Up; 14 Days Total | 165 Minutes | 24 Hours | 90 Minutes |
Questions The number of questions required by the certification exam. | Hands-On Lab with Required Technical Write-Up | 85 | Lab Exploits with Write Up | 90 |
Hands-on Labs Does the certification require hands-on labs to prove that you understand the concepts? | ||||
Real World Scenarios Questions include real world scenarios with in-platform labs. | ||||
Difficulty The type of expertise required to complete this exam. | Professional | Novice | Professional | Novice |
Pre-Requisites Requirements to take the exam | Networking, Manual Exploitation, Vulnerability Assessment, Outstanding Written Skills | Network+, Security+ or equivalent with 3-4 years or experience. | Networking, Manual Exploitation, Vulnerability Assessment, Outstanding Written Skills | Entry-level cyber security |
Price The amount you must pay to attempt the certification exam. | $400 | $381 | $1499 + $249 Retake Fee | $381 |
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