Certified Red Team Fundamentals

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Most defenders have never seen an attack from the other side of the keyboard. This full-day, hands-on workshop puts you in the seat of a penetration tester working through a realistic engagement against a vulnerable target environment. You won't watch slides. You'll work through the full attack lifecycle in a live lab, using the same industry-standard tooling red teamers rely on every day. Across seven guided modules and a capstone challenge, you'll perform network reconnaissance with Nmap, brute-force authentication services with Hydra, identify and weaponize known vulnerabilities from public exploit databases, gain initial access, analyze suspicious files, escalate privileges using crafted Python payloads, move through a target environment to collect sensitive data, and apply defense evasion techniques to understand how attackers stay quiet. Each module ties back to the MITRE ATT&CK framework so attendees leave with a mental model they can apply to their own environments. Whether they're starting a red team career, transitioning from a SOC role, or running blue team operations and want to understand what they're actually defending against. By the end of the day, you'll have completed a guided engagement end-to-end and will have the foundation to continue practicing on your own.

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Format: Workshop
Kind: Workshop
Topic: Cybersecurity, Privacy, and System Resilience
Level: Beginner
Time: Oct 28, 2026, 5:00 AM
Room: Room C
Duration: 8 hr 5 min
Public page: https://www.mitechcon.net/sessions/certified-red-team-fundamentals/

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Ken Smith

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Defenders make better decisions after seeing the attacker's workflow. Most defenders have never seen an attack from the other side of the keyboard. Ken Smith uses "Certified Red Team Fundamentals" to connect the warning signs to a walkthrough of a realistic red-team lab from recon to privilege escalation, keeping the focus on decisions teams can actually make. 📅 October 28–30, 2026 📍 Oakland University, Rochester, MI 🔗 https://www.mitechcon.net/sessions/certified-red-team-fundamentals/?utm_source=partner-kit&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=mitechcon-2026&utm_content=session-certified-red-team-fundamentals #MITechCon #Cybersecurity #RedTeam #InfoSec

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Defenders make better decisions after seeing the attacker's workflow. Work through a realistic red-team lab from recon to privilege escalation. https://www.mitechcon.net/sessions/certified-red-team-fundamentals/?utm_source=partner-kit&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=mitechcon-2026&utm_content=session-certified-red-team-fundamentals #MITechCon #Cybersecurity

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Feature this MITechCon 2026 session in your newsletter or email: "Certified Red Team Fundamentals". Defenders make better decisions after seeing the attacker's workflow. Most defenders have never seen an attack from the other side of the keyboard. Ken Smith uses "Certified Red Team Fundamentals" to connect the warning signs to a walkthrough of a realistic red-team lab from recon to privilege escalation, keeping the focus on decisions teams can actually make. Format: Workshop. Topic: Cybersecurity, Privacy, and System Resilience. Level: Beginner. Scheduled for Oct 28, 2026, 5:00 AM in Room C. Learn more and share the session: https://www.mitechcon.net/sessions/certified-red-team-fundamentals/?utm_source=partner-kit&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=mitechcon-2026&utm_content=session-certified-red-team-fundamentals

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