{"id":12027,"date":"2026-08-10T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nokobox.com\/index.php\/item\/sans-sec542-web-app-penetration-testing-and-ethical-hacking-2017-1\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:40:11","slug":"sans-sec542-web-app-penetration-testing-and-ethical-hacking-2017-1","status":"publish","type":"digital_item","link":"https:\/\/nokobox.com\/index.php\/item\/sans-sec542-web-app-penetration-testing-and-ethical-hacking-2017-1\/","title":{"rendered":"SANS \u2013 SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking 2017-1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Descriptions<\/h2>\n

SEC542: Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, SEC542: Web Application Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking teaches students how to identify, exploit, and demonstrate the real-world impact of critical web application vulnerabilities. Through a structured, repeatable methodology, students learn to move beyond automated scanners and conduct professional-grade penetration tests. The course emphasizes both technical skill development and effective communication of risk to improve organizational security posture.If your organization does not properly test and secure its web applications, adversaries can compromise these apps, damage business functionality, and steal data. Unfortunately, many organizations operate under the mistaken impression that a web application security scanner will reliably discover flaws in their systems.SEC542 helps students move beyond push-button scanning to professional, thorough, high-value web application penetration testing. Customers expect web applications to provide significant functionality and data access. Even beyond the importance of customer-facing web applications, internal web applications increasingly represent the most commonly used business tools within any organization. Unfortunately, there is no patch Tuesday for custom web applications, so major industry studies find that web application flaws play a major role in significant breaches and intrusions. Adversaries increasingly focus on these high-value targets, either by directly abusing public-facing applications or by focusing on web apps as targets after an initial break-in. SEC542 enables students to assess a web application\u2019s security posture and convincingly demonstrate the business impact should attackers exploit discovered vulnerabilities. Modern cyber defense requires a realistic and thorough understanding of web application security issues. Anyone can learn to sling a few web hacks, but effective web application penetration testing requires something deeper.SEC542 gives novice students the information and skills to become expert penetration testers with practice and fills in all the foundational gaps for individuals with some penetration testing background.<\/p>\n

What you\u2019ll learn<\/h3>\n