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Security Certification Roadmap

✍️ Ongoing

🎯 To-do

✅ Done

🆓 Free

Future Goals 🎯

• Senior Web Penetration Tester (HTB)
• UnderTheWire (PowerShell) 🆓
• PostSwigger Academy 🆓
  • Client-side topics
  • Advanced topics
• Attacking and Defending AWS (THM)

2024 Goals 🎯

• OverTheWire (Bash) 🆓
  • Bandit ✅
  • Natas 🎯
• picoCTF 🆓
  • Web exploitation ✍️
• PostSwigger Academy 🆓
  • Server-side topics ✍️
• APISEC University 🆓
  • API Security Fundamentals ✅
  • API Penetration Testing Course ✅
  • API Authentication ✍️
• Hack The Box Academy
  • Penetration Tester Job Role Path (CPTS) ✅
  • Bug Bounty Hunter Job Role Path (CBBH) ✍️
  • CREST CPSA/CRT Preparation 🎯
• Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert certification 🆓✅

Recommended Platforms 👍

• APISEC University 🆓
• PostSwigger Academy 🆓
• UnderTheWire (PowerShell) 🆓
• OverTheWire (Bash) 🆓
• picoCTF 🆓
• Hack The Box
• Try Hack Me
• CISCO 🆓

OU Studies Tracker 📋

• BSc (Honours) Cyber Security (OU):
  • The computing and IT project (02/2027) 🎯
  • Cisco networking (CCNA) part 2 (10/2027) 🎯
  • Information security (10/2026) 🎯
  • Systems penetration testing (02/2026) 🎯
  • Communication and information technologies (10/2026) 🎯
  • Web technologies (02/2025) 🎯
  • TM257 Cisco networking (CCNA) part 1 (10/2024) ✍️
  • TM256 Cyber security (2024) ✍️
  • TM129 Technologies in practice (2024) ✅
  • Mathematical methods (MST224) (2022) ✅
  • MST124 Essential mathematics 1 (2022) ✅
  • TM112 Introduction to computing and information technology 2 (2021) ✅
  • TM111 Introduction to computing and information technology 1 (2021) ✅
  • Introducing statistics (2021) ✅

Interesting 🤔

• Hacker101
• Hacking The Cloud
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty
• Postman Classroom Program
• Pwnedlabs