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Pen Testing Courses

Pen testing courses can help you learn vulnerability assessment, network security, and ethical hacking techniques. You can build skills in penetration testing methodologies, risk analysis, and incident response strategies. Many courses introduce tools like Metasploit, Wireshark, and Burp Suite, that support identifying and exploiting security weaknesses in systems and applications. By engaging with these tools, you can practice practical work that enhance your ability to secure networks and protect sensitive data.

Popular Pen Testing Courses and Certifications


  • C

    Coursera

    Product Intelligence: Unlock Insights for Product Success

    Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Data Presentation, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Strategic Decision-Making, Product Management, Customer Insights, Data Analysis, Forecasting, A/B Testing, Business Analytics, Analytics, Prioritization, Statistical Analysis, Business Metrics, User Research, Customer Retention, Machine Learning Methods, Root Cause Analysis, Statistical Methods, Stakeholder Communications

    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
  • P

    Packt

    Nmap

    Skills you'll gain: Vulnerability Scanning, Penetration Testing, Network Monitoring, Network Security, Vulnerability Assessments, Network Administration, Security Testing, Network Protocols, Network Analysis, TCP/IP, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Network Infrastructure, Software Installation, Ubuntu, Command-Line Interface

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • E

    EDUCBA

    Python Scripting Case Study - To-do List Application

    Skills you'll gain: Application Development, Model View Controller, Software Development Methodologies

    ★ 4.8 (15) · Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
  • M

    MathWorks

    Creating Custom Apps in MATLAB

    Skills you'll gain: User Interface (UI) Design, User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design, No-Code Development, UI Components, Interactive Design, Plot (Graphics)

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
  • P

    Packt

    Deploy any MERN Stack App on Azure Cloud using CICD Pipeline

    Skills you'll gain: Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Services, Azure DevOps, Cloud Computing, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, Cloud Deployment, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Web Development Tools, Application Performance Management, Application Deployment, Cloud-Based Integration, Full-Stack Web Development, Node.JS, Development Testing, Platform As A Service (PaaS)

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • E

    EDUCBA

    Quantitative Finance with SAS: Apply, Analyze & Evaluate

    Skills you'll gain: SAS (Software), Descriptive Statistics, Market Data, Financial Data, Risk Modeling, Risking, Regression Analysis, Descriptive Analytics, Statistical Methods, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Correlation Analysis, Statistical Modeling, Statistical Reporting, Data Analysis Software, Statistical Programming, Statistical Analysis, Quantitative Research, Financial Market, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Statistical Software

    ★ 4.9 (12) · Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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  • P

    Packt

    Event-Driven Systems, Security, and Microservices

    Skills you'll gain: Containerization, Docker (Software), Microservices, Authentications, OAuth, Integration Testing, .NET Framework, Event-Driven Programming, Software Architecture, Identity and Access Management, Software Design Patterns, Scalability, Authorization (Computing), Transaction Processing

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
  • G

    Google Cloud

    Improving Network Performance I

    Skills you'll gain: Network Performance Management, Network Monitoring, Performance Tuning, Virtual Networking, Google Cloud Platform, Performance Testing, Network Troubleshooting, Network Analysis, Hardware Architecture, Intranet

    Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • C

    Coursera

    Tokens to Deployment: NLP, Language Models, & Production API

    Skills you'll gain: OAuth, Unit Testing, Apache Airflow, Fine-tuning, Model Evaluation, Data Validation, API Design, Test Driven Development (TDD), Data Integrity, Extract, Transform, Load, Model Training, Multimodal Prompts, Natural Language Processing, MLOps (Machine Learning Operations), OpenAI API, Data Presentation, Hugging Face, Token Optimization, CI/CD, Tensorflow

    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

    Category: New
    New
    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
  • P

    Packt

    Minimal API Development with ASP.NET Core

    Skills you'll gain: Restful API, Postman API Platform, API Design, Application Programming Interface (API), .NET Framework, API Testing, Authentications, Object-Relational Mapping, Development Environment, Microsoft Visual Studio, Web Development Tools, Endpoint Security, Software Design Patterns, Data Mapping, Identity and Access Management, Data Validation

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • P

    Packt

    Building and Fine-Tuning LLM Applications

    Skills you'll gain: Retrieval-Augmented Generation, AI Workflows, Fine-tuning, Model Deployment, Applied Machine Learning, Application Deployment, API Testing, Model Optimization

    Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

    Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
  • C

    Coursera

    Decision Tree Classifier for Beginners in R

    Skills you'll gain: Model Evaluation, Model Training, Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Decision Tree Learning, Data Preprocessing, R (Software), Statistical Modeling, R Programming, Supervised Learning, Machine Learning

    ★ 4.8 (6) · Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular pen testing courses

  • Product Intelligence: Unlock Insights for Product Success: Coursera
  • Nmap: Packt
  • Python Scripting Case Study - To-do List Application: EDUCBA
  • Creating Custom Apps in MATLAB: MathWorks
  • Deploy any MERN Stack App on Azure Cloud using CICD Pipeline: Packt
  • Quantitative Finance with SAS: Apply, Analyze & Evaluate: EDUCBA
  • Event-Driven Systems, Security, and Microservices: Packt
  • Improving Network Performance I: Google Cloud
  • Tokens to Deployment: NLP, Language Models, & Production API: Coursera
  • Minimal API Development with ASP.NET Core: Packt

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