Cyber Security Course's Reference.

There are many roles in the Cybersecurity job market. One of these is Ethical Hacking, also known as 'Red Teaming', or as 'Pentesting' ('Penetration Testing').

I've enlisted myself for two Pentesting courses:
- Cyberium (started in December 2024),
- Hack The Box (started in August 2025).

Making reference notes as I progress.

These notes won't replace the full courses, but may prove to be useful for myself and others still - if only as a reference.

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List of lessons:

1. Kali Linux Reference for Pentesters,
2. Foundations of Cyber Security,
3. Introduction to Pentesting,
4. Pentesting: Art of Reconaissance,
5. Pentesting: Scanning & Enumeration,
6. Pentesting: Vulnerability Analysis,
7. Pentesting: Manual Exploitation of Systems, Services & Applications,
8. Pentesting: Metasploit in Practice,
9. Pentesting: Attacks on Web Applications,
10. Pentesting: Documentation & Reporting,
11. Pentesting: Post-Exploitation,
12. Pentesting: Cloud Security / work in progress /,
13. Pentesting: Attacks on Active Directory / to be done /,

... and the final chapter, created by this blog's author.

14. Martial Arts Philosophy in Hacking.

See also, if You wish:
> [ Artificial Intelligence & Ethical Hacking ].

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I've completed one of the courses (Cyberium), and got two certificates (one for completing the course, and one for final exam). The most important one is for succesfully passing the final exam:



But as this blog's author sees it, it's only beginning of the True Training (like Black Belt in Martial Arts, where the Mastery of Basics in just a good start).

I plan to develop myself in Ethical Hacking for the whole rest of my life. There's so much to do, I think I won't lack topics to pursue.

I want to combine Hacking with Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Informatics too.

Perhaps I'll need to do some Advanced Mathematics, including:
- Predicate Calculus, First Order Logic & Higher Order Logic,
  (for Artificial Intelligence mostly)
- Numerical Methods,
  (only course that I failed when I was studying Informatics on Warsaw University, MIMUW)
- Calculus (also known as Mathematical Analysis),
  (somehow I succesfully passed this course on MIMUW, but in fact I have some irrational mental
  problems, making me fail every time when I want to learn about Integrals. :(. I just know that
  Definite Integral can be seen as Area Under the Curve, and that Indefinite Integrals are about
  finding Antiderivative of a function)
- Cryptography & Post-Quantum Cryptography.
  (for Ethical Hacking mostly)
... but still, not sure how I'll do it, and if I'll have time for that.

But then, even Einstein had problems with Mathematics.

I don't want my problems with Mathematics stop my development in Hacking and Sciences.

Maybe someday I can 'reforge' my weaknesses into strengths.