Web App Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking

DIXONTECH presents a hands-on Web Application Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking course. Delegates learn reconnaissance, OWASP-based vulnerability discovery, manual exploitation, secure coding fixes, and professional reporting to reduce application risk and improve remediation cycles.

TRAINING TOPICS

• RECONNAISSANCE & THREAT MODELING
• VULNERABILITY DISCOVERY & SCANNING
• EXPLOITATION & POST-EXPLOITATION
• OWASP TOP 10 & SECURE CODING
• REPORTING, REMEDIATION & CAPSTONE

BY THE END OF THIS TRAINING COURSE, DELEGATES WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Equip delegates with practical, industry-aligned web-app pen-testing skills.
• Identify and map web application attack surfaces quickly.
• Use automated scanners and manual verification effectively.
• Exploit common web vulnerabilities in controlled labs.
• Produce professional penetration test reports and remediation plans.
• Integrate secure coding fixes into development lifecycles.
• Apply ethical, legal, and scope rules during tests.

TRAINING IS TAILORED TO

• Practical security skills for technical and non-technical practitioners.
• Web application developers seeking security awareness and fixes.
• QA and test engineers improving security test coverage.
• Security analysts and SOC team members enhancing detection.
• Compliance and audit professionals validating remediation efforts.
• DevOps engineers integrating security into CI/CD pipelines.
• Junior pentesters building practical, hands-on experience.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

Hands-on labs using realistic vulnerable web applications, instructor-led tool workshops, guided walkthroughs, group threat-model exercises, and a final CTF capstone to practise full test cycles and reporting.

DAY 1:

RECONNAISSANCE & THREAT MODELING

• Passive OSINT gathering for target intelligence and footprinting.
• Active discovery of subdomains and content enumeration.
• Fingerprinting web technologies and framework identification techniques.
• Mapping authentication, session flows, and trust boundaries.
• Threat modelling for realistic attack path identification.
• Defining scope, rules of engagement, and legal constraints.

DAY 2:

VULNERABILITY DISCOVERY & SCANNING

• Automated scanning with industry-standard scanners and tuning.
• Manual discovery of injection and business logic flaws.
• Testing authentication, session, and authorization weaknesses.
• Identifying insecure direct object references and IDORs.
• Assessing file upload handling and input validation issues.
• Fuzzing APIs and endpoints for hidden vulnerabilities.
• Validating and prioritising scanner findings manually.

DAY 3:

EXPLOITATION & POST-EXPLOITATION

• Exploiting SQL injection, XSS, and command injection safely.
• Attacking broken access controls and privilege escalation.
• Chaining vulnerabilities to achieve higher impact exploitation.
• Post-exploitation persistence, evidence capture, and forensics.
• Safe cleanup, proof-of-concept creation, and mitigation notes.

DAY 4:

OWASP TOP 10 & SECURE CODING

• Deep dive into OWASP Top 10 threat categories and examples.
• Secure session management and secure cookie best practices.
• Input validation, output encoding, and sanitization patterns.
• Secure authentication, MFA, and credential storage guidance.
• Preventing CSRF, clickjacking, and client-side attacks.
• Secure file handling, upload validation, and storage controls.
• Dependency scanning, SBOM review, and supply-chain checks.
• Developer labs: apply fixes to vulnerable sample code.

DAY 5:

REPORTING, REMEDIATION & CAPSTONE

• Writing clear executive summaries and technical findings.
• Risk rating, evidence capture, and remediation prioritisation.
• Communicating technical findings to development teams effectively.
• End-to-end capstone penetration test and remediation planning.
• Debrief, lessons learned, and next steps for teams.
• Certification of completion and recommended resources list.

FORMATTING NOTES:

• Font: Poppins
• Size: 12
• Headings: Uppercase + Bold
• DAY titles: Bold + separate line
• Main titles: Bold + separate line
• Bullets: Standard, one line each (5–10 words)
• Spacing and alignment: Clean professional layout.