VAPT Career Path

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing

Attain World's No.1 Ethical Hacking Certification with Comprehensive Network Security Skills and Advance Penetration Capabilities!

Become a Vulnerability Assessment Specialist

CERTIFIED PROFESSIONALS
IN 145 COUNTRIES

VAPT Career Path

Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing

Attain World's No.1 Ethical Hacking Certification with Comprehensive Network Security Skills and Advance Penetration Capabilities!

CERTIFIED PROFESSIONALS
IN 145 COUNTRIES

Become a Vulnerability Assessment Specialist

What is VAPT (Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing)?

Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing (VAPT) is a technique to protect an organization against external and internal threats by identifying security threats. VAPT professionals can secure the organization’s network infrastructure, web application, and mobile application security assessment to detect and gauge security vulnerabilities with ethical hacking, network security, and penetration testing skills.

Your Pathway to a Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Career

CYBER ESSENTIAL

NETWORK
SECURITY

ETHICAL
HACKING

DIGITAL
FORENSICS

BEGINNER

CYBER
TECHNICIAN

CORE

NETWORK
SECURITY

ETHICAL
HACKING

ADVANCE/SPECIALISATION

WEB APPLICATION
HACKING & SECURITY

PENETRATION
TESTING

A novice should begin their journey by building a solid foundation in the core areas of cybersecurity. Start by getting the basics right with the Network Defense, Digital Forensics, and Ethical Hacking certification; the course to prepare for this certification is completely free.

Attain a basic core certification of the Certified Cybersecurity Technician (C|CT) to begin your professional cybersecurity course. C|CT will immerse students into well-constructed knowledge transfer through training, accompanied by critical thinking challenges and immersive, hands-on lab experiences allowing candidates to apply their knowledge and move into the phase of skill development right in the class.

Post C|CT, you need to grow your career path with the Certified Network Defender certification. You will learn to examine network traffic at the binary level, master TCP/IP protocol, introduce vulnerability assessments and hacking methodology, and much more. These are essential skills that a VAPT professional should possess, a good foundation to become a network security expert.

Once you have a solid foundation, you will be ready to move into ethical hacking with Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) course, Worlds No.1 Ethical hacking certification. C|EH learning framework Learn, Certify, Engage and Compete framework covers a comprehensive training program to prepare you for the certification exam and the industry’s most robust, in-depth, hands-on lab experience of any cybersecurity program available. The C|EH certification will help you get into the Hackers mindset and expose you to the 5 phases of ethical hacking, which will allow you to acquire the skills to become a competent professional in the vulnerability and penetration testing world.

Post C|EH, we recommend you take up Web Application Hacking and Security, a specialization certification that enables you to play, learn, hack, test, and secure web applications from existing and emerging security threats in the industry verticals.

After mastering the 5 Phases of Ethical Hacking, you will be ready for penetrating testing. With the Certified Penetration testing Professional course will learn advanced penetration testing skills such as Advanced Windows Attacks, Internet of Things (IoT) Penetration Testing, Penetration Testing in OT and ICS/SCADA Environments, Exploit Writing and Advanced Binary Exploitation, Bypassing Filtered Networks, Accessing Hidden Networks with Pivoting and Double Pivoting, Privilege Escalation, Defense Evasion, Attack Automation with Scripts and many more.

Learn to Strengthen the Security Posture, By Identifying Vulnerabilities That Adversaries Can Exploit.
CPENT = HACKING WITH A PURPOSE!

Job Roles Mapped to Vulnerability Assessment and
Penetration Testing Career

Job Roles Mapped to Application Security Career Path

Cyber Security Technician

IT Support Specialist, IT Networking Specialist, Cybersecurity Technicians, Network Engineers, SOC Analyst

Network Security

Entry-level Network Administrators, Entry-level Network Security Administrators, Data Security Analyst, Junior Network Security Engineer, Junior Network Defense Technician, Security Analyst, Security Operator, Network Security Engineer

Ethical Hacking

Mid-Level Information Security Auditor, Cybersecurity Auditor, Security Administrator, IT Security Administrator, Cyber Defense Analyst,, Vulnerability Assessment Analyst, Warning Analyst, Information Security Analyst 1, Security Analyst L1, Infosec Security Administrator, Cybersecurity Analyst level 1, level 2, & level 3, Network Security Engineer, SOC Security Analyst, Security Analyst, Network Engineer, Senior Security Consultant, Information Security Manager, Senior SOC Analyst, Solution Architect, Cybersecurity Consultant

Penetration Testing

Penetration Testers, Network Server Administrators, Firewall Administrators, Security Testers, System Administrators and Risk Assessment professionals, Cybersecurity Forensic Analyst, Cyberthreat Analyst, Cloud Security Analyst, Information Security Analyst, Application Security Analyst, Cybersecurity Assurance Engineer, Security Operations Center (SOC) Analyst, Technical Operations Network Engineer, Information Security Engineer, Network Security Penetration Tester, Network Security Engineer, Information Security Architect

7 Reasons to choose Vulnerability Assessment and
Penetration Testing Career

How does VAPT help the organization

Prevention from damage to an organization’s reputation
Prevention from damage to an organization’s reputation
Preventing confidential data and intellectual property from being stolen
Prevention of revenue loss due to service disruption

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