WHAT ARE THE PROVING GROUNDS?
The Offensive Security Proving Grounds (PG) are a modern network for practicing penetration testing skills on exploitable, real-world vectors. They’re based on the course labs featured in the pentesting course for the OSCP certification, Penetration Testing with Kali Linux (PWK).
The labs simulate a complete enterprise network containing dozens of exploit points, ranging in difficulty from simple to sophisticated. They serve as a battleground for penetration testers and enterprise teams to practice, learn, and improve in a realistic environment.
Your team members will develop and hone their penetration testing skills against situations and surfaces they would encounter on a real pentest, within the most robust enterprise network simulation available.
In addition to in-network exploit points, use cases also include social engineering, phishing emails, man-in-the-middle attacks, social tools and other common vulnerabilities present in today’s real-world networks.
PROFESSIONAL PENTESTING EXPERIENCE
Great care has gone into creating a network of over forty machines with multiple operating systems. These are configured to represent a range of installations, from locked-down modern servers to classic configurations still found in networks everywhere. The systems deployment mirrors real-world situations, complete with network segmentation and IPS-protected “high security” zones.
Real exploitations serve as the basis for all scenarios, ensuring the experience is as genuine as possible. Our industry experts develop and implement new exploits every quarter so that your teams can continue to develop their professional pentesting skills in a safe yet highly realistic corporate environment.
REALISM
- Allows for interesting pivots and expanding possibilities
- Recreates corporate environments
- Practice different techniques relevant to a specific OS
- Difficulty ranges from easy to expert
DYNAMIC UPDATES
- Our labs grow as we discover new exploits
- We use our Exploit Database and pentest assessments to ensure the Proving Grounds stay updated
- Users are exposed to scenarios they’d encounter in the real world
What’s included in Proving Grounds?
Pentesters can expect to practice on:
- Modern MS Windows domain infrastructure
- Windows Defender AV bypass
- Linux production environments
- Active Directory
Complex attack vectors are included and new machines last 90 days.
Attack simulations include:
- Man-in-the-middle attacks
- Server message blocking (SMB)
- Phishing emails
- Web and mobile apps
- File server attacks
- Pivoting / lateral movement
- Custom exploits
- Reverse engineering apps
- Buffer overflow, injection, and password attacks
- Privilege escalation
- Information gathering
- Metasploit framework
- WhatsApp (coming soon)
WHY PROVING GROUNDS?
Many vulnerable machines have non-standard configurations. Simply pointing attack tools at the targets and clicking “go” won’t work. Penetration testers must dig deep into the vulnerabilities to complete their task rather than relying on automated tools.
Our hosted virtual lab networks prepare penetration testers for these situations. They include a variety of operating systems and attack vectors, so participants use and hone a broad set of pentesting skills for a richer and more educational experience.
We built Proving Grounds using our years of experience running the OffSec Training Labs. The extensive penetration tests we’ve conducted allow us to mirror interesting scenarios in our labs.
WHO ARE THE PROVING GROUNDS FOR?
We created the hosted virtual labs as a next step for experienced penetration testers and those who have completed the OSCP examination. However, understanding how systems are penetrated is beneficial to many other IT and technical roles, including:
- Systems and network admins
- Web application developers
- Software engineers
- Security architects, analysts, and engineers
- Exploit development researchers
- Information security consultants
Our challenging labs can frustrate even the most confident of information security professionals, providing an excellent training opportunity. If you’d like to explore options for your team, contact us.
PROVING GROUNDS OPTIONS
Proving Grounds Enterprise Edition is a completely private network simulation environment for anyone involved in pentesting. It includes a master admin account for customizable functionality, along with access to both analytics and progress reports.
Our Teams edition is for growing teams (5+ members) looking to take their corporate pentesting experience to the next level.
PROVING GROUNDS ENTERPRISE EDITION
With unlimited users, Proving Grounds Enterprise Edition is the most complete, sophisticated simulated enterprise pentesting environment on the market – and 100% dedicated to your organization.
An assigned administrator from your organization will have access to all lab walkthroughs. They will have flexibility to grant access to any number of users, so that you can accommodate new users, cross functional teams, or other changes that may occur throughout the year.
PROVING GROUNDS TEAMS EDITION
Proving Grounds Teams Edition is a perfect match for smaller organizations and teams. Hosted in a shared environment, it allows your organization to invest in the most realistic simulated network environment while still operating on a flexible budget.
Pricing is based on the number of users (minimum 5 users).
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