My OSCP Diary

baegmon

Introduction


Penetration with Kali (PWK) was always a penetration testing course I wanted to complete but because of my workload and my general lack of knowledge, I did not feel ready to begin.


Fast forward a couple of months, I have a fair bit of spare time so I obtained the eLearning Junior Penetration Testing certification (review) to prepare myself for the PWK course. As soon as I passed my exam, I registered for the PWK course and received my start date which was April 23rd 2017.


Background
I completed my degree in Computer Science at the University of Sydney in December 2016 so I am fairly comfortable with programming.
The only preparation I have done is the eLearning PTS course and also read about half of the book Violent Python.


Diary


This diary will contain continuous progress updates as I work through the course and will also be used to post the resources that I found valuable as I progress.


April 23rd 2017
- Received PDF and video package at 11:00am.
- The first week will be slow since the PDF is huge and there are so many videos to get through.


I will be updating this post (and on my website) over the coming few months.
I am aiming to complete by June.

saraguru

baegmon wrote: »

Introduction


Penetration with Kali (PWK) was always a penetration testing course I wanted to complete but because of my workload and my general lack of knowledge, I did not feel ready to begin.


Fast forward a couple of months, I have a fair bit of spare time so I obtained the eLearning Junior Penetration Testing certification (review) to prepare myself for the PWK course. As soon as I passed my exam, I registered for the PWK course and received my start date which was April 23rd 2017.


Background
I completed my degree in Computer Science at the University of Sydney in December 2016 so I am fairly comfortable with programming.
The only preparation I have done is the eLearning PTS course and also read about half of the book Violent Python.


Diary


This diary will contain continuous progress updates as I work through the course and will also be used to post the resources that I found valuable as I progress.


April 23rd 2017
- Received PDF and video package at 11:00am.
- The first week will be slow since the PDF is huge and there are so many videos to get through.


I will be updating this post (and on my website) over the coming few months.
I am aiming to complete by June.

I hope you enjoy your OSCP journey as much as I am enjoying it now!!
All the very Best baegmon

baegmon

saraguru wrote: »

I hope you enjoy your OSCP journey as much as I am enjoying it now!!
All the very Best baegmon

Content looks very interesting so far.
I have been looking forward to this for a long time so I'm gonna enjoy every second of it

SaSkiller

How much lab time did you buy?

baegmon

SaSkiller wrote: »

How much lab time did you buy?

I purchased 90 days. I was aiming to finish in 60 days but reading the reviews from others, it doesn't look likely and I wanted to go with the safe route

TreySong

baegmon wrote: »

Introduction



April 23rd 2017
- Received PDF and video package at 11:00am.
- The first week will be slow since the PDF is huge and there are so many videos to get through.


I will be updating this post (and on my website) over the coming few months.
I am aiming to complete by June.

I also started on April 23rd, but today isms first day of study. I will take it easy and aim to finish by the end of June. I don't intend to give myself headache over this. My belief is that if you take time to understand the underlying principles, then it should not be too difficult.

oscp

How are things going?

Dr. Fluxx

update?