SNS S542 Web Application Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking - GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester GWAPT
 
Course Description
This course develops advanced expertise in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities within modern web applications. Learners apply structured reconnaissance, mapping, and exploitation techniques against application logic, authentication workflows, and APIs. The training focuses on attacker driven methodologies that produce clear, actionable security findings aligned with enterprise risk priorities.
 
What You Will Learn
Identify and exploit common web application vulnerabilities, including cross site scripting, cross site request forgery, SQL injection, and command injection
Analyze authentication, authorization, and session management weaknesses
Perform API and web service testing using industry standard tools, plus targeted custom scripts
Assess client side security controls and mobile web interfaces
Translate technical findings into clear remediation guidance for development and security teams
 
Who This Course Is For
This course is designed for penetration testers, application security engineers, DevSecOps professionals, security consultants, and technical auditors responsible for evaluating and improving web application security.
 
Hands On Training Experience
Learners participate in extensive hands on labs that simulate real world web application environments. Exercises include reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation, and defensive validation using realistic attacker workflows and competitive challenge based scenarios.
 
Course Outcomes
Execute structured web application penetration tests using repeatable methodologies
Identify and validate high risk application vulnerabilities before production exploitation
Improve collaboration between security and development teams through precise technical reporting
Strengthen organizational defenses against application layer attacks targeting logic and trust boundaries