The Certified Penetration Testing Professional, or CPENT for short, redefines the standards of penetration testing skill development, delivering advanced expertise for modern enterprise environments.
EC-Council’s Certified Penetration Tester (CPENT) program provides professionals with the essential cybersecurity skills to conduct effective penetration tests in complex enterprise networks that must be attacked, exploited, evaded, and defended — skills increasingly in demand as organizations seek to secure expanding attack surfaces.
- Rising Importance of Pen Testing: 99%agree that as technology evolves, pen testing becomes increasingly important (Cobalt)
- Prioritize In-House Security Testing: 69% of CISOs like to have dedicated in-house security testing (Pentera)
- Pen Testing as a Critical Defense: 72% confirm that pen testing has prevented breaches at their organization (Fortra)
- Key Pen Testing Challenge: 62% agree lack of resources to act on findings/perform remediation, a primary challenge in performing pentesting (Fortra)
- Primary Barrier to Pentesting: 42% reported availability of pentesters as a primary barrier to pentesting (Core Security)
If you have only worked in flat networks, CPENT’s live practice range will take your skills to the next level: testing IoT systems, OT systems, writing your own exploits, building custom tools, conducting advanced binary exploitation, double pivoting to access hidden networks, and customizing scripts/exploits to penetrate the innermost network segments.
Overview
Organizations are on the hunt for versatile, AI-powered pen testers who can lead offensive security with robust, real-world skills.
A rigorous Pen Testing program that, unlike contemporary Pen Testing courses, the CPENT: Certified Penetration Testing Professional teaches you how to perform an effective penetration test across filtered networks.
The course requires you to Pen Test IoT systems, OT systems, builds on your ability to write your own exploits, build your own tools, conduct advanced binaries exploitation, double pivot to access hidden networks, and various technologies. In summary, there is no program of its kind in the world.
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Skills Covered
Advanced Windows Attacks
- Access active directories. Power your way through network defenses using PowerShell to execute Silver and Gold Ticket and Kerberoasting.
Attacking loT Systems
- CPENT is the 1st certification in the world to teach loT attacks
Writing Exploits: Advanced Binary Exploitation
- Go beyond advanced application security testing techniques and experience the thrill of exploiting vulnerabilities in flawed binaries across 32- and 64-bit cot
Bypassing a Filtered Network
- Unlike flat networks that most certifications train in, access web applications and extract data through a series of filtered networks with CENT.
Pentesting Operational Technology (OT)
- CPENT is the world’s first pen testing certification that allows you to intercept Modbus communication protocol and communicate between PLC and its slave nodes.
Access Hidden Networks with Pivoting
- Learn lateral movement and what it means to pivot through filtered networks.
Double Pivoting
- If you think pivoting is hard, wait until you try double pivoting!
Privilege Escalation
- Gain root access by mastering privilege escalation techniques
Evading Defense Mechanisms
- We don’t just teach you to write exploits; we teach you to how to bypass protections
Attack Automation with Scripts
- A key skill for most employers, we’ll teach you to go beyond tools!
Weaponize Your Exploits
- Penetesting tools not enough for you? Here’s your chance to learn to build your own armory.
Write Professional Reports
- Learn classic pen testing skills from experts.
Prerequisites
There are no pre-requisites required to attend this course.
Target Audience
- Penetration Testers
- Ethical Hackers
- Information security Consultant
- Security Testers
- Security Analysts
- Security Engineers
- Network Server Administrators
- Firewall Administrators
- System Administrators
- Risk Assesement Professionals
- Module 1: Introduction to Penetration Testing and Methodologies
- Module 2: Penetration Testing Scoping and Engagement
- Module 3: Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Attack Surface Mapping
- Module 4: Social Engineering Penetration Testing
- Module 5: Web Application Penetration Testing
- Module 6: API and Java Web Token Penetration Testing
- Module 7: Perimeter Defense Evasion Techniques
- Module 8: Windows Exploitation and Privilege Escalation
- Module 9: Active Directory Penetration Testing
- Module 10: Linux Exploitation and Privilege Escalation
- Module 11: Reverse Engineering, Fuzzing, and Binary Exploitation
- Module 12: Lateral Movement and Pivoting
- Module 13: IoT Penetration Testing
- Module 14: Report Writing and Post-Testing Actions
Dates & Locations
September 21, 2026 - September 25, 2026
September 21, 2026 - September 25, 2026
December 14, 2026 - December 18, 2026
December 14, 2026 - December 18, 2026
Exam & Certification
Certified Penetration Testing Professional.
The heart of the CPENT program is all about helping you master your pen testing skills by putting them to use on our live cyber ranges. The CPENT ranges were designed to be dynamic in order to give you a real-world training program, so just as targets and technology continue to change in live networks, both the CPENT practice and exam ranges will mimic this reality as our team of engineers continue to add targets and defenses throughout the CPENT course’s lifetime.
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