I Cannot Compare CPENT With Other Certifications. It Is Very Advanced and It Challenged Me to Think Outside the Box.
Job Title: Cybersecurity Specialist
Country: United States
Cybersecurity Specialist Hesham Mohamadin says that his love of challenges inspired him to become a Certified Penetration Testing Professional (C|PENT). In this video, he shares his experience with the C|PENT program, which he says sharpened his ethical hacking skills and taught him how to take an outside-the-box approach to penetration testing. He also discusses the challenges he faced during the course and offers his tips on acing the certification exam.
Hesham, who is also a Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH), says that the C|PENT program improved his technical proficiency and helped him advance in his career. In particular, he’s been able to apply the hacking concepts and techniques he mastered in the C|PENT course, like Nmap and Active Directory hacking, in his daily work activities.
Tell us about your journey as a cybersecurity professional.
I’m Hesham Mohamadin, originally from Egypt and currently living in California. First, I would like to thank EC-Council for giving me this opportunity to share my experience. I graduated in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in law. I worked as a police officer for a couple of years after I graduated, and then I decided to change my career to information technology. Then I started to take mini-courses in networking and the program. In 2005, I took my first course in cybersecurity and have been in the cybersecurity industry ever since. In 2008, I got a job in one of the largest Islamic banks in Qatar as a cybersecurity officer. I built the first SOC in Qatar in 2015 and got promoted to be a chief information security officer in the same year, until 2021. In 2021, I got a job in a cybersecurity consultant company in the U.S., and I’m still working on it.
What courses and programs have you taken?
I have many Microsoft certificates and Cisco certificates as the beginning. And when I specialized in cybersecurity, I took a C|EH certificate, starting with version four till I got to version 11 last year. I also have an enterprise security manager for analysis certificates from McAfee, threat intelligence certificate from Darktrace, platform administrators’ certificate from loggers, incident handling certificate from EC-Council, OSCP from offensive security, and the C|PENT certificate.
And when I read about it, I got interested. And I decided to go for it as a challenge for myself.
How was your experience preparing for C|PENT?
I started preparing for the C|PENT exam in January 2021. I finished the course and went through all the labs. I did a lot of online practice and tried all the techniques learned from it until I went to the final exam.
What were the three things you liked most about the C|PENT program?
First, it was challenging. Second,
They allowed me to do a lot of practice, but a piece of advice that I would give to our people starting would be if anyone wants to pass this exam, they need to practice on many other resources available on the internet.
What tools or topics from the program do you use daily?
The tool I use the most would be
How would you compare C|PENT with other programs?
I cannot compare C|PENT with other certifications. It is very advanced and hard as compared to other certificates.
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