Hello everyone, my name is Keith Watson,
and welcome to my course, Metasploit: Getting Started.
I'm an information security professional,
and I've been working in the security field since 1997.
I've had a lot of roles in that time,
from a system administrator with security responsibilities,
software development, security architecture,
to my current role as a trusted adviser to clients.
The Metasploit Framework has been around since 2003 and now has more
than 1900 exploits included in the current release.
That is significant growth over time,
and Metasploit's current capabilities are most impressive.
In this course,
we're going to explore penetration testing using the Metasploit Framework.
Some of the major topics that we will cover include an
introduction to penetration testing, the Metasploit Framework architecture,
installation and configuration of the Metasploit Framework using Kali Linux,
launching some simple attacks, and finally,
managing operations and data.
By the end of this course,
you'll know the basics of Metasploit and will be able
to configure and launch attacks.
Before beginning this course,
you should have some familiarity with Linux and networking concepts.
I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn penetration testing
with the Metasploit: Getting Started course,
here at Pluralsight.