Zero to Hero Ethical Hacking
Twelve weeks that take you from your first Linux command to running a full-scope engagement against a live target network.
12wk
Course Length
48
Lessons & Labs
820+
Students Enrolled
From Complete Beginner To Job-Ready Hacker
This is the course we wish existed when we started. It assumes nothing — no prior security background, no networking degree — and takes you all the way to running a real penetration test end to end. Every concept is taught with a keyboard in your hands, not a slide on a screen.
You build your own lab, learn how attackers think, and then practise every technique against an isolated network modelled on a mid-sized company: a public web tier, an internal Active Directory domain and a segmented finance subnet. By the final module you are chaining findings, escalating privileges, moving laterally and writing it all up the way a client actually needs it.
Skills You Leave With
- Set up and run your own Kali Linux hacking lab safely and legally.
- Understand networking, Linux and the TCP/IP stack well enough to attack them.
- Perform passive and active reconnaissance without tripping detection.
- Find, verify and safely exploit web and network vulnerabilities.
- Escalate privileges on Linux and Windows, then move laterally through a domain.
- Attack Active Directory — Kerberoasting, delegation abuse and ACL paths.
- Write a professional findings report with impact and remediation a client can act on.
7 Modules, 48 Lessons
- How the internet actually works 34 min
- Linux command line from scratch 46 min
- Networking & TCP/IP for hackers 42 min
- Lab: build your Kali environment 60 min
- Assignment: map your home network —
- OSINT without touching the target 38 min
- Host discovery & port scanning with Nmap 45 min
- Service and version fingerprinting 37 min
- Lab: map the target network 120 min
- Injection: SQL, command and template 52 min
- Broken authentication and sessions 44 min
- Access control and IDOR chains 39 min
- Lab: compromise the public web tier 150 min
- Finding and using public exploits safely 40 min
- The Metasploit framework end to end 55 min
- Payloads, listeners and reverse shells 43 min
- Lab: gain your first foothold 150 min
- Linux: SUID, capabilities and cron paths 48 min
- Windows: tokens, services and unquoted paths 51 min
- Credential harvesting and reuse 37 min
- Lab: root three hosts 180 min
- Domain enumeration and attack paths 46 min
- Kerberos abuse: roasting and delegation 55 min
- Lab: reach the finance subnet 210 min
- Rating severity honestly 33 min
- Writing remediation a developer can use 40 min
- Final assessment: full engagement 48 hrs
- Certificate issue and review —
"I started this course not knowing what a terminal was. Twelve weeks later I passed my first real interview by walking them through an engagement I ran in the lab."
— Graduate, Cohort 9LKR 5,000 / course
Includes lab access · 90 days of lab access after the final session.
- Duration 12 weeks
- Lessons 48
- Graded labs 12
- Level All Levels
- Live sessions 2 / week
- Language English & Sinhala
- Certificate Included
Seats fill fast — next cohort opens the first Monday of the month
- A laptop with 8GB+ RAM that can run a virtual machine.
- Curiosity and willingness to break things — no security background needed.
- Basic comfort using a computer; everything else is taught from zero.
R. Dissanayake
Lead Instructor14 years of red team work across banking and telco. Writes the offensive curriculum and reviews every graded lab submission on this course personally.
Everything You Get Access To
Enrol and these land in your student portal from day one — yours to keep, with 90 days of lab access after the final session.
Kali Linux Lab Setup Guide
Step-by-step PDF to build your own virtual hacking lab from scratch, safely and offline.
Nmap & Enumeration Cheat Sheet
Every scan flag, NSE script and enumeration command you will reach for, on one page.
Privilege Escalation Checklists
The Linux and Windows privesc checklists our testers actually run on engagements.
Penetration Test Report Template
The client-ready report format you write your final engagement in — findings, impact, remediation.
Isolated Target Network
Your own copy of the corporate lab — 18 hosts, 4 segments — resettable for 90 days.
Curated Reading & Practice List
Recommended books plus a sequenced set of Hack The Box and TryHackMe rooms to keep practising.
Set Up Your Lab
Free, official tools and operating-system images to build the lab you'll practise in. Install these on your own machine before day one — every link goes to the vendor's own download page.
These tools are for use only on systems you own or are explicitly authorised to test. Everything you do on this course is legal, consented and inside your own lab.
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