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Attacking and Defending Active Directory: Beginner's Edition [Sept 2023]

Our 4-week beginner bootcamp teaches you to attack and defend Enterprise Active Directory environments. Covers AD enumeration, trust mapping, Kerberos based attacks and more! Earn the Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP) certification.

Starts: 27 Aug 2023  Duration: 4 weeks
Recordings of live sessions included!

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Attacking & Defending Active Directory: Beginner's Edition (CRTP)

What You Will Learn

This is a 4-week beginner-friendly bootcamp, designed to teach security professionals how to identify and analyze threats in a modern Active Directory environment. The bootcamp will cover topics like Active Directory (AD) enumeration, trust mapping, domain privilege escalation, Kerberos based attacks, SQL server trusts, defenses and bypasses of defenses.
 

The bootcamp will teach you how to attack and defend Enterprise Active Directory environments and will give you an opportunity to become a Certified Red Team Professional.

Attacking & Defending Active Directory: Beginner's Edition (CRTP)

​4 Live Sessions
3.5 Hrs Per Session
4 Weeks Access
40 Flags To Be Collected
22 Lab Exercises
1 CRTP Attempt
Recordings Of Live Sessions

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Build Your Cybersecurity Credentials

Become a Certified Red Team Professional (CRTP)

This certification on your CV" with A certificate holder has demonstrated the understanding of AD security. She can identify and enumerate interesting information and execute variety of attack techniques like local and domain privilege escalation, persistence, trust abuse and antivirus evasion with minimal chances of detection.

Bootcamp Completion Certificate

Attendees will also get a course completion certificate after completing Learning Objectives covered during the course.

Attacking & Defending Active Directory: Beginner's Edition (CRTP)

Live Session Schedule

Weekly 3.5 hr sessions start at 10:00am ET and end at 1:30pm ET.

DATE
LIVE SESSIONS
27 Aug 2023
Introduction to Active Directory, Enumeration and Local Privilege Escalation
03 Sept 2023
Lateral Movement, Domain Privilege Escalation and Persistence
10 Sept 2023
Domain Persistence, Dominance and Escalation to Enterprise Admins
17 Sept 2023
Defenses, Monitoring and Bypassing Defenses
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Prerequisites

1. A basic understanding of Active Directory
2. The ability to use command line tools on Windows

Bootcamp Syllabus

The course is split in four modules across four weeks:

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Module I: Active Directory Enumeration and Local Privilege Escalation

Enumerate useful information like users, groups, group memberships, computers, user

properties, trusts, ACLs etc. to map attack paths

Learn and practice different local privilege escalation techniques on a Windows machine

Hunt for local admin privileges on machines in the target domain using multiple methods

Abuse enterprise applications to execute complex attack paths that involve bypassing antivirus and pivoting to different machines

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Module II: Lateral Movement, Domain Privilege Escalation and Persistence

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