The SecurityTube Metasploit Framework Expert course provides in a unique way with a super practical Hands-On methods for knowing the insight of Metasploit. This course will help you in great deal using this tool to test your environment, vulnerability analysis, social engineering, towards ultimately exploiting these weakness.
– Faiz Al Raisi
Infosec Researcher
Oman
The SecurityTube Metasploit Framework Expert (SMFE) is an online certification on the Metasploit Framework. This course is ideal for penetration testers, security enthusiasts and network administrators. The course leading to the certification exam is entirely practical and hands-on in nature. The final certification exam is fully practical as well and tests the student’s ability to think out of the box and is based on the application of knowledge in practical real life scenarios.
A non-exhaustive list of topics to be taught includes:
- Metasploit Basics and Framework Organization
- Server and Client Side Exploitation
- Meterpreter – Extensions and Scripting
- Database Integration and Automated Exploitation
- Post Exploitation Kung-Fu – Exploring the system, Privilege escalation, Log deletion and AV / Firewall bypass
- Token stealing and impersonation, Backdoors and Rootkits, Pivoting and Port forwarding, Railgun and Custom Scripting, Backdoor an Executable
- Ruby Primer for Hackers
- Writing Metasploit Modules – Auxiliary and Exploit
- Exploit research with Metasploit- Buffer Overlows, SEH, DEP Bypass, Return Oriented Programming
- Social Engineering Toolkit (SET) and Armitage
- Scenario Based Hacking using Metasploit
Our course material consists of 12+ hours of video lectures with practical demonstrations. We follow a step by step pedantic approach to teaching our students. This allows them to learn at their own pace. As part of our effort to make educational material freely available to everyone, we have released the core course material videos free of charge online. Please evaluate our course material for free here.
Metasploit is an extremely practical topic and for true mastery the student would have to spend time in the lab exploiting dozens of machines with different operating systems such as Windows 7, Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Redhat etc.), BSD etc. We offer on-demand, in the cloud labs as an optional component to this certification. The labs run for a month and can be renewed. The labs provide the students with access to different network configurations with firewalls, IDSs, routers and switches, and vulnerable machines. The exercises range from easy to difficult and provide a gradual learning curve for the student. Select the “Certification + 30 Day Lab Access” in the Sign Up tab if you would like to include this in your purchase.
Apart from the course material, students are also provided access to the Students portal, get to attend monthly webinars, lifetime course updates, home labs, PDF copy of the slides, cheat sheets and a host of the other useful things to facilitate learning. Please watch the video below for a sneak preview of the student’s portal.
Vivek Ramachandran is the Founder and Chief Trainer at SecurityTube.net. He discovered the Caffe Latte attack, broke WEP Cloaking, a WEP protection schema in 2007 publicly at Defcon and conceptualized enterprise Wi-Fi Backdoors. He is also the author of the book “Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing“.
Vivek currently runs the SecurityTube Wi-Fi Security Expert (SWSE) and the SecurityTube Metasploit Framework Expert (SMFE) online course and certifications which is currently being taken by students from over 35+ countries around the world.
In a past life, he was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco’s 6500 Catalyst series of switches. He was also one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants.
Vivek’s work on wireless security has been quoted in BBC online, InfoWorld, MacWorld, The Register, IT World Canada etc. places. He has spoken/trained at top conferences around the world including Blackhat USA and Abu Dhabi, Defcon, Hacktivity, Brucon, ClubHack, SecurityByte, SecurityZone, Nullcon, C0C0n etc.
The pricing includes the full course material videos, PDF copy of the slides, access to the Students portal with Home Lab Exercises, Q&A Forum etc., lifetime course updates and much more as shown in the table below:
Please submit the Paypal powered form below to make a payment to “Binary Security Innovative Solutions Pvt. Ltd.“, the parent company of SecurityTube to enroll for the course.
If you cannot use Paypal, please drop us an email at vivek [] securitytube.net for alternate forms of payment.
0. Is the Metasploit or Rapid7 Team involved in this certification in anyway?
A: No, the Metasploit or Rapid7 Team has absolutely no involvement in this certification at all. This is a purely SecurityTube offering.
1. Is this certification only for the technically elite? I am a n00b / intermediate Metasploit user, can I clear this?
A: The courseware for our certification assumes you have zero knowledge of the Metasploit Framework. We take you through the very basics, slowly ramp up and then help you get proficient in the subject. The lab exercises, Q&A forums and cheat sheets are all ways for you to get your doubts cleared and become a Metasploit Ninja.
2. Are there specific course batches or can I join this course anytime?
A: This is an online course and you can join anytime. There is no start or end date.
3. How soon do I have to give the exam?
A: Once you register for the course, you can give the exam on any available date.
4. What is the exam format?
A: You will have a live exam where you will have to conduct a penetration test with Metasploit. We will give you VPN access to the test network on the exam day.
5. If I fail the exam, how soon can I retake it again?
A: You can retake it as soon as you feel you are ready 
The Re-examination cost will be $100.
6. Will I get a physical certificate when I clear the exam?
A: Yes, we will mail you a hard copy of the certificate when you clear the exam. We will also have a portal on our website, where potential employers can verify the authenticity of your certificate by using the certificate number to check.
7. If I miss an exam date will my lifetime access be cancelled?
A: No, your lifetime access remains forever. You will just have to book an new exam date with us by paying the re-examination fee of $100.
If there a question you have which is not in the FAQ above, please write to us at vivek [_at_] securitytube.net and we will get back to you as soon as possible.