Mentorship program
Designed to help the next generation of IT security professionals. Students get practical frameworks and guidance on what it takes to enter, and excel in, a modern security workplace.
A degree or diploma teaches the theory. This program helps you gain the knowledge and skills for a professional career, and gives you the hands-on proof employers look for.
Apply nowReal projects, real feedback.
Participants take part in hands-on sessions and are challenged with projects across a wide range of applications and topics.
- Discounted access to Xanthus training modules.
- Industry-leading professional training, with accreditation in information technology and security.
- Guidance from practising penetration testers who do this work every day.
- Practical frameworks for how real engagements are scoped, run and reported.
Who can apply: IT students with a certificate or diploma, undergraduates, postgraduates and recent alumni.
Four modules, about 40 hours each.
The modules build on each other, from core offensive skills to the web, network and mobile work that makes up much of a penetration tester's day.
Offensive foundations
- Coding skills and real-life offensive scenarios
- Thinking like an attacker
Learn to think like an attacker and write the scripts and tools you'll use every day, working through scenarios drawn from real engagements.
≈ 40 hoursWeb application penetration testing
- Authentication, sessions and access control
- Injection, business logic and APIs
Test realistic web applications from end to end, as an anonymous visitor and as each type of logged-in user, then write up your findings the way a client would receive them.
≈ 40 hoursNetworks & Active Directory
- External and internal network penetration testing
- Active Directory in depth
Move from the outside in: find a way onto a network, then work through the Active Directory environments that run most organizations.
≈ 40 hoursMobile
- Mobile application testing, including iOS and Android
Test the apps on the phones in everyone's pocket, and the services behind them, on both major platforms.
≈ 40 hoursFrom application to portfolio.
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Tell us about your studies, your interests and what you'd like to get out of the program.
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We talk with you about your background and goals so you start each module at the right level.
Learn by doing
Hands-on sessions and projects in each module, with guidance and feedback from our team along the way.
Show your work
Build your e-portfolio as you go, ready to share with potential employers when you finish.
Show employers what you can do.
Every student gets an e-portfolio that demonstrates their hands-on work and gives a snapshot of their skills and projects. Portfolios and certificates can be shared on social media to show credibility to potential employers, so you walk into interviews with proof, not just a transcript.
Apply for the mentorship program.
Tell us about your studies and what you'd like to get out of the program.
- A reply within one business day
- Certified team (OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT, GMOB, CRTL)
- Your details stay confidential