The Future of Information Security – Offensive Security
Information Security is a vast and deep realm with many facets. Often, companies find themselves confused trying to find quality training, effective awareness programs or more meaningful certifications. In the end, many are left searching Google trying to find answers.Offensive Security has put together a set of resources to help your company in its mission to become more secure. Our mission statement is – “Security Through Education“. To us that is not just a statement, it is a way of life. Below is a list of resources that are at your disposal to give you some of the best security based education in the world today.
Security Training:
Offensive Security has combined and blended all of these facets together to provide a one-stop resource of information security training and awareness programs. With its leading hands-on approach to training as well as some of the most hardcore penetration testing certifications around, Offensive Security can help your company maintain its perimeter.Security Tools:
BackTrack Linux – the world’s leading penetration testing distribution is lead and funded by Offensive Security. BackTrack is the defacto standard in a penetration tester’s toolkit, with over 1.8 million downloads of version 4 alone and a community of over 80,000 people.Security Resources:
The Exploit Database indexes over 12,500 exploits for known vulnerabilities. Working together with companies like Qualys, Rapid7 and others, we have shared this resource to help security conscious companies have the chance to test and then fix known vulnerabilities in their networks.Free Information Security Training – Metasploit Unleashed:
This free Information Security Training is brought to you in a community effort to promote awareness and raise funds for underprivileged children in East Africa. Through a heart-warming effort by several security professionals, we are proud to present the most complete and in-depth open course about the Metasploit Framework. These resources are at your disposal to help you educate yourself and your peers about the methods and techniques used to compromise organizations on a daily basis.
