Advanced Penetration Testing Course & Pen Testing Training
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What Does an Advanced Penetration Tester Do?
An advanced penetration tester is an IT professional who identifies the vulnerabilities in network and software security and then provides suggestions and methods for how to resolve those gaps.
Advanced penetration testers use the same exploitation techniques as a cyber attacker but with the motivation to help prevent those attacks. Just as a criminal hacker takes a high-level look at an organization's technical landscape to determine how to proceed with an attack, penetration testers investigate the complexities of the infrastructure to identify attacks before they happen. Because penetration testers use the same tools and strategies that criminal attackers use to identify vulnerabilities, they are able to uncover the areas within systems, networks, and applications that are most at risk for attack. Penetration tests are now essential in corporate environments with a mature cybersecurity strategy.
Why Take the Advanced Penetration Testing Course?
As one of the categories of illegal activities, Cybercrime now ranks third in dollar value worldwide. In 2018, a [study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)](https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/reports/restricted/rp-economic-impact-cybercrime.pdf), in partnership with McAfee, concluded that close to $600 billion, nearly one percent of global GDP, is lost to cybercrime each year. To combat the ever-rising threat of cyberattacks, more organizations are working to develop strategies to fight and prevent these attacks. As a result, the cybersecurity job market is expanding. It is no longer sufficient to deal with attacks as they happen, companies need professional penetration testers to perform penetration testing proactively.
Taking the Advanced Penetration Testing course will help prepare you to enter a field where you will be in demand, making the potential for advancement greater than in other industries. If you have a passion for information security and you want to be a pen tester, this is definitely the course for you.