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In this session, we move from scanning to understanding what we found. We'll walk through vulnerability identification and analysis — how to use tools like Nessus, OpenVAS, and Nikto to surface weaknesses, how to read CVEs and CVSS scores, and how to prioritize what matters.

This is where the data starts to mean something.

📋 What We'll Cover
- Vulnerability scanning tools: Nessus Essentials, OpenVAS, Nikto basics
- Reading CVEs and CVSS scores — what the numbers actually mean
- Common vulnerability categories: misconfigurations, unpatched services, default credentials
- Prioritizing findings: what to fix first and why
- Blue team view: how defenders use the same data to harden systems

🚨 This is a PAID event. 20 seats. No exceptions.

Cover6: First Watch is our free, self-paced SOC simulation — always free. First Watch Live is our monthly cohort series — a new scenario every month, with Tyrone E. Wilson walking you through every analyst decision in real time.

June 13 scenario: The Odapeeka State University ransomware incident (Splunk + Security Onion). Already did the free version? Good. Now see how a real analyst thinks through it — the methodology, the tool decisions, and the moments where most people get stuck.

What's included:
- Live instructor-led walkthrough with Tyrone E. Wilson
- Isolated Splunk + Security Onion lab environment
- Direct Q&A throughout the session
- 20 seats only — no exceptions

Google Meet credentials + lab access sent the night before (June 12).

This is where theory meets practice. Exploitation is turning a documented vulnerability into actual access. We do this in the lab — on systems you own — and we document everything. Written authorization before you touch anything external. Always.

📋 What We'll Cover
- Metasploit framework — how it's organized, how to think in modules
- Module → Payload → Session — the three components of every exploit
- Bind vs. reverse shells — when each matters
- Documenting exploitation evidence for a real report

Getting in is just step one. What you do after access is the real skill — and it's where most beginners stop learning. We'll go past the Meterpreter shell and start asking the real questions: who am I, what can I reach, and what do I do next?

📋 What We'll Cover
- Post-exploitation checklist — situational awareness, persistence, credential harvesting
- Pass-the-Hash — using hashes without cracking them
- Windows privilege escalation
- Linux privilege escalation
- Lateral movement