About This Workshop
Most defenders have never seen an attack from the other side of the keyboard. This full-day, hands-on workshop puts you in the seat of a penetration tester working through a realistic engagement against a vulnerable target environment. You won't watch slides. You'll work through the full attack lifecycle in a live lab, using the same industry-standard tooling red teamers rely on every day.
Across seven guided modules and a capstone challenge, you'll perform network reconnaissance with Nmap, brute-force authentication services with Hydra, identify and weaponize known vulnerabilities from public exploit databases, gain initial access, analyze suspicious files, escalate privileges using crafted Python payloads, move through a target environment to collect sensitive data, and apply defense evasion techniques to understand how attackers stay quiet.
Each module ties back to the MITRE ATT&CK framework so attendees leave with a mental model they can apply to their own environments. Whether they're starting a red team career, transitioning from a SOC role, or running blue team operations and want to understand what they're actually defending against.
By the end of the day, you'll have completed a guided engagement end-to-end and will have the foundation to continue practicing on your own.