Network testing Hardening Workshop

RCCE students will learn network penetration testing methodologies including external and internal network testing, port scanning, service enumeration, vulnerability exploitation, lateral movement, and privilege escalation in network environments. RCCE students will learn to plan and scope network penetration tests, conduct host discovery and service enumeration, identify and exploit network service vulnerabilities, perform credential attacks against network authentication services, demonstrate lateral movement through network environments, escalate privileges to domain administrator access, document network test findings, and provide remediation guidance prioritized by business risk. This hands-on hardening course focuses on reducing attack surface through practical configuration changes and security guardrails. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn to apply hardening baselines, validate configurations, and measure the security improvement achieved. Students walk away with actionable hardening checklists and the skills to maintain hardened configurations as environments evolve.