Leveraging AI for Penetration Testing

Leveraging AI for Penetration Testing

36mIntermediate2024-10-22

Authors

Tennisha Martin

Tennisha Martin

Executive Director and Chairwoman at BlackGirlsHack

Course details

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful tool in the field of penetration testing, offering novel ways to enhance cybersecurity. AI-driven penetration testing simulates cyberattacks and identifies vulnerabilities in a network or system. By automating the testing process, AI can rapidly assess a wide range of potential attack vectors, providing security professionals with valuable insights into weaknesses that might otherwise go unnoticed. AI can also help develop more realistic attack scenarios, improving the overall effectiveness of penetration testing while reducing the manual effort necessary to conduct an engagement.

This course for beginner and intermediate ethical hackers provides an overview on how to incorporate the power of AI and large language models into ethical hacking methodologies. Explore the ways that AI can be used, how AI can automate common steps, using AI to obtain user-level access, and using AI to identify attack vectors become more effective as an ethical hacker.

Skills covered

Penetration TestingArtificial Intelligence FoundationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)CybersecurityOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • AI-driven penetration testing
  • What you should know

What Is Penetration Testing

  • Penetration testing
  • What penetration testers do

Using Artificial Intelligence to Assist in Penetration Testing

  • Artificial intelligence
  • High-level task planning for external penetration tests
  • Identify assets in use on the system
  • Identify vulnerabilities
  • Identify tasks and processes to be automated
  • Automate tasks and processes
  • Obtain low-level access of a system using ChatGPT
  • Identify attack vectors to escalate privileges using ChatGPT
  • Escalate privileges for a low-level user using ChatGPT

Conclusion

  • Next steps
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