Capstone: End-to-End Security Assessment — Roadmap Step & Resources
A complete simulated engagement: recon, scanning, exploitation, reporting and remediation guidance
- Level: advanced
- Estimated time: 3 days
- Roadmap: Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker
Before this step
Mini projects
- Run a complete assessment of a multi-host lab network and deliver a professional-grade report
Interview questions
- Walk me through how you would scope, execute and report on a full penetration test for a new client.
Study resources
- FREE Practical Ethical Hacking course from The Cyber Mentor (Video) — The Cyber Mentor's legendary, hugely popular 15-hour free ethical hacking course, widely used as OSCP prep material.
- Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES) (Article) — The PTES methodology, the primary reference for structuring the capstone engagement end to end.
Part of
- Certifications, Career and Capstone — section
- Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker roadmap — the full learning path