OffSec Penetration Testing with Kali Linux PEN-200 (OSCP) Training
OffSec PEN-200 (OSCP) at FAU Continuing Education brings OffSec's flagship hands-on penetration-testing course — the path to the famed OSCP certification to South Florida. Offered through Florida Atlantic University's partnership with Applied Technology Academy, the course is taught live — online or in the Boca Raton classroom — by ATA practitioner instructors who work in the field they teach.
The program develops real-world exploitation methodology in dedicated lab environments, from enumeration through privilege escalation. It is built for penetration testers and red-team operators, proven in a 24-hour practical exam, and FAU Continuing Education students train alongside working professionals from across South Florida's technology and defense employers.
Enrollment runs through the FAU Continuing Education team — register for a scheduled session below, or contact us to plan the right start date, funding path and preparation plan.
Course Overview
Penetration Testing with Kali Linux, is a unique penetration course course that combines traditional course materials with hands-on simulations, using a virtual lab environment.
Competencies you will gain from this course:
- Using information gathering techniques to identify and enumerate targets running various operating systems.
- Writing basic scripts and tools to aid in the penetration testing process
- Analyzing, correcting, modifying, cross-compiling and porting public exploit code
- Conducting remote, local privilege escalation and clientside attacks
- Identifying and exploiting XSS, SQL injection and file inclusion vulnerabilities in web applications
- Leveraging tunneling techniques to pivot between networks
- Creative problem solving and lateral thinking skills
Course Outline
- Penetration Testing: What You Should Know
- Getting Comfortable with Kali Linux
- Command Line Fun
- Practical Tools
- Bash Scripting
- Passive Information Gathering
- Active Information Gathering
- Vulnerability Scanning
- Web Application Attacks
- Buffer Overflow Intro
- Windows Buffer Overflows
- Linux Buffer Overflow
- Client Side Attacks
- Using Public Exploits
- Fixing Exploits
- File Transfers
- Bypassing Antivirus Software
- Privilege Escalation
- Password Attacks
- Port Redirection and Tunneling
- Metasploit
- Active Directory attacks (Domains)
- PowerShell Empire
- Assembling the Pieces: Penetration Test Breakdown
Intended Audience
- Infosec professionals transitioning into penetration testing
- Pentesters seeking one of the best pentesting certifications
- Those interested in pursuing a penetration tester career path
- Security professionals
- Network administrators
- Other technology professionals
Prerequisites
All students are required to have:
- Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking
- Reasonable Windows and Linux administration experience
- Familiarity of Bash scripting with basic Python or Pearl a plus