Module 12: Capstone - Red vs Blue Engagement & Reporting
Pull the programme together: plan an authorised engagement, follow a methodology from reconnaissance to report, review a purple-team exercise and write a prioritised, remediation-focused report. This is where the whole skill chain is proven in a realistic, ethical simulation.
- Level
- Advanced
- Study time
- 6 hours
- Lessons
- 5
- Practice labs
- 3
- Assessments
- 2
- Format
- Self-paced, online
What you will learn
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Run and report a complete, ethical security engagement (syllabus outcome for Module 12).
- Identify scope and rules-of-engagement violations in a tester activity log.
- Produce a prioritised finding list with business impact and specific remediation, chaining evidence from earlier modules.
Before you start
Modules 1-11 of the bootcamp
Tools you will use
Course outline
5 lessons in 2 modules.
Sub-module 12.1: Engagement methodology & reporting
- Scope, authorisation and rules of engagement
- Methodology: from reconnaissance to report
- Writing the report and presenting to management
Sub-module 12.2: Live Red vs Blue exercise
- Purple-team review: red findings versus blue detections
- Worked example: prioritising a capstone finding set
Practice labs and assessments
Labs run in the browser as simulations. They never touch a real system.
3 practice labs
- Audit the scope and activity log Beginner, 25 min
- Review the purple-team exercise Intermediate, 35 min
- Capstone: prioritised report Advanced, 60 min, final lab
2 assessments
- Module 12 knowledge check
- Module 12 final quiz
The pass mark is 70%. You can retake an assessment.
Take Module 12: Capstone - Red vs Blue Engagement & Reporting
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