Hacking Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)
Learning about Hackers and Their Tactics to Maximize Security
Course Purpose
Learn about ethical hacking to understand the need and approaches to cybersecurity defense by seeing the world through the attacker’s eyes.
Problem This Course Solves
Helps learners understand how hackers approach systems, and provides ethical hacking techniques and frameworks to strengthen defense strategies.
Objectives & Learning Outcomes
- Define key threat and risk-related terms
- Identify hacker categories and their ethical boundaries
- Explain attacker motivations, resources, and sophistication
- Describe insider threats and shadow IT risks
- Explain attack planning methodologies
- Understand TTPs and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Apply the Cyber Kill Chain and Diamond Model
- Recognize reconnaissance and OSINT techniques
- Identify attack surfaces and vulnerabilities
- Understand malware types and delivery methods
- Analyze social engineering tactics
- Recognize vulnerabilities in systems and networks
- Perform basic scanning and reconnaissance
- Describe DoS, DDoS, spoofing, and application attacks
- Understand password cracking methods and tools
- Identify stealth and evasion techniques
- Recognize Indicators of Compromise (IoCs)
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive guide to cybersecurity threats, attacker methodologies, and defensive countermeasures. Through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on exercises, you’ll learn how attackers plan, deliver, and exploit vulnerabilities using modern tactics and tools. Frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and models such as the Cyber Kill Chain provide structured methodologies to analyze attacks and improve defensive strategies.
Who Should Take This Course?
- New IT professionals
- Those seeking ethical hacking skills
- Certification candidates: CompTIA Security+, CySA+, Pentest+, SecurityX, ISC2 CISSP, Cisco CBROPS
About the Instructor
Andrew Grimes (TechKnowSurge) has over 20 years of IT and cybersecurity experience, 6,000+ hours of classroom instruction, and more than 20 industry certifications. His background includes leading IT and Security teams, managing cloud infrastructure for millions of users, and developing security programs from scratch. A former USAF instructor with a passion for teaching, Andrew brings practical, engaging, and employer-driven insights to every course.
What Students Say
“Andrew is hands down the best instructor I’ve had. Because of him, I’m working in the network engineering field now.” — Michael B.
“He makes complicated topics easy and engaging. Truly a gifted teacher.” — Jeff S.
Prerequisites
A good working knowledge of computers and networking fundamentals is recommended. No special equipment needed — all exercises explained in course.
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Master the skills employers demand — gain practical cybersecurity knowledge and build your ethical hacking toolkit.