‫Welcome to the basic concepts of penetration testing and ethical hacking section.
‫Now, before learning how to perform penetration tests on live systems, let's first learn exactly what
‫the penetration test is and what the basic concepts are.
‫The way that I define them and the way that I'm going to use them throughout the course, please, I
‫want to warn you that this section is prepared to teach you the basic concept of penetration testing
‫and ethical hacking.
‫So I strongly recommend watching the lectures of this section.
‫However, if you already know the concept and terminologies of penetration testing, or if you're just
‫impatient and you really want to get right to the hands on practice, you can go ahead and skip this
‫section.
‫I give you permission.
‫Not that you needed it anyway.
‫In this section, we're going to learn what the penetration test is, and from now on, I'll just abbreviate
‫it to pen test the types of security tests and audits that we perform to understand the strength of
‫an IT network, security audits, eleanore ability assessments and pen tests.
‫The basic concept of offensive security.
‫Asset threat, vulnerability and risk.
‫The pen test approaches from black box to white box.
‫And what about the steps of planning a pen test?
‫What is the purpose of the test?
‫What is the scope of the test?
‫What are the requirements to test the scope and the restrictions of the test?
‫We're also going to learn the main phases of a pen test reconnaissance, a.k.a. information gathering,
‫scanning the network and scanning for the vulnerabilities.
‫Exploitation, a.k.a. gaining access and post exploitation.
‫Covering the tracks of the test and reporting the test results.
‫We're also going to learn the legal issues that you should know about and obey, and they'll worldwide
‫organizations that determine and publish pen test standard.