Codename Samurai Skills Course

The main focus of this course is to teach you the following skills:

They themselves consider this a medium level course and are promising to come out with a more advanced course soon. I consider this course a good introduction to pen testing or as a good supplement to other more hardcore courses (like OSCP).

There’s a fair mix of introductory material and slides + ample video which walks you through the slides and shows hands on demonstrations.
The Course

The course covers 8 modules:

Module 1:Solid Introduction to Penetration Testing
Module 2:Real World Information Intelligence Techniques
Module 3:Scanning and Vulnerability Assessment
Module 4:Network Attacking Techniques
Module 5:Windows – Unix Attacking Techniques
Module 6:Windows – Unix Post-exploitation Techniques
Module 7:Web Exploitation Techniques
Module 8:Windows Exploit Development

Each module contains a ‘book’ – which is basically a set of presentation slides and video content – the length of the video varies greatly between chapters (the shortest is the introduction at 35 minutes and the longest is almost 5 hours for module 7).

The presentation slides generally give some introductory material, then run through the relevant subject in a fair amount of depth