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Offensive Security Intro

Hack your first website (legally in a safe environment) and experience an ethical hacker’s job.

Task 1 What is Offensive Security?

Which of the following options better represents the process where you simulate a hacker’s actions to find vulnerabilities in a system?

• Offensive Security
• Defensive Security

  ✅ Offensive Security
  

  

Task 2 Hacking your first machine

Above your account balance, you should now see a message indicating the answer to this question. Can you find the answer you need?

✅ BANK-HACKED

Task 3 Careers in cyber security

Some Success Story on THM blog:
Paul went from a construction worker to a security engineer
Kassandra went from a music teacher to a security professional
Brandon used TryHackMe while at school to get his first job in cyber

What careers are there?

The cyber careers lesson goes into more depth about the different careers in cyber. However, here is a short description of a few offensive security roles:

• Penetration Tester - Responsible for testing technology products for finding exploitable security vulnerabilities.
• Red Teamer - Plays the role of an adversary, attacking an organization and providing feedback from an enemy’s perspective.
• Security Engineer - Design, monitor, and maintain security controls, networks, and systems to help prevent cyberattacks.