Offensive Security Foundations (Authorized Testing)
Understand attacks well enough to prevent them — inside strict rules of engagement: assessment methodology, reconnaissance and enumeration concepts, common exploitation classes demonstrated in an isolated lab, and the reporting craft that turns findings into fixes. Scoping, authorization and ethics are graded components, not footnotes.
What this course covers.
5 modules, 33 named skill atoms. Expand any module to see them.
1Rules of Engagement7 skill atoms
2Assessment Methodology7 skill atoms
3Exploitation Classes (Lab)6 skill atoms
4Post-Exploitation Concepts6 skill atoms
5Reporting that Fixes7 skill atoms
SEC-404 in the role journeys.
This course appears in 3 of our 45 role journeys. Here is what a learner takes immediately before and after it in each.
Roles this course serves
This course is authored to band B4.
Every course we run is written to one rung of the CASI ladder, so a plan can be assembled to take a team from where they are to where they need to be.
What do B1–B6 mean?The CASI Capability Ladder — click to expand
Every course targets a band on the CASI Capability Ladder — our six-band proficiency scale, anchored to open standards (O*NET, ESCO, NICE, NIST AI RMF, Bloom's). A band tells you how deep a course goes, and what evidence proves it.
A note on B6. Courses in this catalog target B1–B5. B6 is not taught — it is recognised, through a portfolio and a panel, once someone is setting direction for others. Every journey here is built to land a learner at B5.
Other Security courses at this level.
AWS Security Engineering
Azure Security Engineering
GCP Security Engineering
Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) & Hardening
Secrets Management & Cross-Cloud Federation
SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM)
Run SEC-404 for your team.
This course runs at several lengths depending on how deep you need to go and how much of it your people already have. Tell us who is being trained and we will scope it.