Complete Modules 00 and 01 Free

Start CEPT with 24 complete lessons at no cost. Module 00 establishes operator readiness, ethics, authorization, range discipline, and resource use. Module 01 guides you through the complete professional engagement lifecycle with full videos, downloadable resources, interactive recall, guided exercises, and graded assessments. The intermediate-to-advanced paid curriculum begins with Module 02 and continues through ESI-managed enterprise labs, reporting practice, private support, and the final hybrid-enterprise capstone.

David Flores, M.S., founder, CEO and lead CEPT instructor

Lead Instructor — David Flores, M.S.

Founder and CEO of Encrypted Syntax Institute LLC • 15+ years in IT and Cybersecurity • United States Army Veteran David leads CEPT with a practitioner-first standard shaped by enterprise environments, cybersecurity consulting and high-pressure security roles. His instruction connects technical tradecraft to the judgment required on real engagements: defining authority, building defensible attack paths, proving material business impact, preserving evidence, communicating with stakeholders and validating remediation. Students are not trained to stop after obtaining a shell. They are trained to operate responsibly across complex hybrid environments and deliver work that technical teams and executives can trust.

Your Learning Path: 16 Modules + Capstone

14 Chapters · 73 Lessons

    1. 0.1 • Operator Mission and Technical Roadmap Free preview
    2. 0.1A • How to Use Your CEPT Resources Free preview
    3. 0.2 • Authorization, Ethics, Privacy, and Prohibited Conduct Free preview
    4. 0.3 • Build an Isolated Operator Workstation Free preview
    5. 0.4 • Evidence Before Exploitation Free preview
    6. 0.5 • Connect, Snapshot, Reset, and Recover Free preview
    7. 0.6 • Readiness Diagnostic and Personalized Bridge Plan Free preview
    8. 0.7 • Authorization and Safety Knowledge Check Free preview
    9. 0.8 • Authorization and Safety Assessment Free preview
    10. 0.9 • Workstation and Range Validation Gate Free preview
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      0.10 • CEPT Learner Feedback Check-In

    1. 1.1 • Mission Brief: Your First Client Decision Free preview
    2. 1.2 • Authorization Is a System, Not a Signature Free preview
    3. 1.3 • From Business Concern to Testable Objective Free preview
    4. 1.4 • Scope the Hybrid Enterprise Free preview
    5. 1.5 • Rules of Engagement That Survive Contact Free preview
    6. 1.6 • Communication, Deconfliction, and Escalation Free preview
    7. 1.7 • Evidence Before Tools Free preview
    8. 1.8 • Stop Conditions and Decision Records Free preview
    9. 1.9 • The Go/No-Go Readiness Review Free preview
    10. 1.10 • Guided Lab: Northbridge Engagement Plan Free preview
    11. 1.11 • Independent Challenge: Meridian Acquisition Free preview
    12. 1.12 • Debrief, Rapid Recall, Quiz, and Field Transfer Free preview
    13. 1.13 • Rapid Recall: Engagement Lifecycle Free preview
    14. 1.14 • Module 1 Scenario Assessment Free preview

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      2.12 • Guided Lab: OSINT Source Validation and Attack-Surface Map

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      2.12A • Guided Lab: Public Code, Cloud, Metadata, and Identity Exposure

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      2.12B • Advanced Lab: Active Validation and Attack-Surface Graph

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      2.13 • Independent Challenge: Unknown Subsidiary Exposure

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      3.13 • Guided Lab: Rate-Aware Multi-Tool TCP and UDP Discovery

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      3.13A • Advanced Lab: Enterprise Service Enumeration and Trust Mapping

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      3.13B • Advanced Lab: Packet Evidence, Segmentation, and Test Queue

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      3.14 • Independent Challenge: Segmented Service Analysis

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      4.12 • Guided Lab: Scanner Triage and Manual Validation

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      4.12A • Advanced Lab: Safe Manual Finding Validation

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      4.12B • Advanced Lab: Business Risk, Remediation, and Formal Retest

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      4.13 • Independent Challenge: Evidence-Led Finding Disposition Board

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      5.12 • Guided Lab: Linux Privilege-Boundary Assessment and Remediation

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      5.12A • Advanced Lab: Windows Privilege-Boundary Assessment

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      5.12B • Advanced Lab: Password and Hash Audit with Credential-Control Evaluation

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      5.13 • Independent Challenge: Endpoint Control and Retest

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      6.12 • Guided Lab: Directory Discovery and Relationship Mapping

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      6.12A • Advanced Lab: Kerberos, Service Accounts, Delegation, and Local-Admin Exposure

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      6.12B • Advanced Lab: AD CS and Identity Misconfiguration Validation

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      6.12C • Advanced Capstone: Multi-Host Identity Attack Path Challenge

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      7.12 • Guided Lab: Firewall, NAT, VPN, Proxy, and Segmentation Matrix

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      7.12A • Advanced Lab: Detection-Aware IDS/IPS Purple-Team Validation

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      7.12B • Advanced Lab: Controlled Traffic Shaping and Tunneling Hypotheses

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      7.12C • Advanced Capstone: Segmented Enterprise Control Challenge

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      8.12 • Advanced Lab: Application Access-Control Assessment

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      8.12A • Advanced Lab: Injection and Server-Side Behavior

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      8.12B • Advanced Lab: Browser Trust, File Operations, and Business Logic

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      8.12C • Advanced Capstone: Developer-Ready Web Findings Challenge

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      9.12 • Advanced Lab: REST and GraphQL Inventory, Schemas, Tokens, and Trust

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      9.12A • Advanced Lab: Object, Function, and Property Authorization

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      9.12B • Advanced Lab: Business Flows, Resource Controls, SSRF, and Webhooks

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      9.12C • Advanced Capstone: Modern Application Attack-Path and Retest Challenge

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      10.12 • Advanced Lab: Cloud Identity, Storage, Secrets, Metadata, Network, and Logging

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      10.12A • Advanced Lab: Container, Registry, Service-Account and Kubernetes Boundaries

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      10.12B • Advanced Lab: Repository, Dependency, CI/CD, Artifact and Deployment Trust

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      10.12C • Advanced Capstone: Cloud-Native Enterprise Control Challenge

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      11.12 • Advanced Lab: Wireless Discovery, Spectrum Evidence, and Exposure Mapping

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      11.12A • Advanced Lab: Enterprise WLAN Identity, Certificate, and Segmentation Validation

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      11.12B • Advanced Lab: Rogue Access, Client Behavior, Detection, and Remote-Access Posture

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      11.12C • Advanced Capstone: Wireless and Remote-Access Enterprise Challenge

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      12.12 • Advanced Lab: Mobile Architecture, Local Storage, and Communications Analysis

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      12.12A • Advanced Lab: IoT Management, Protocol, and Ecosystem Trust Assessment

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      12.12B • Advanced Lab: Firmware Acquisition, Integrity, and Bounded Triage

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      12.12C • Advanced Capstone: Mobile, IoT, and Embedded Ecosystem Challenge

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      13.12 • Advanced Lab: OT Rules, Zones, Conduits, and Passive Discovery

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      13.12A • Advanced Lab: Industrial Protocol and Process-Integrity Analysis

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      13.12B • Advanced Lab: Safety-Conscious Validation, Detection, and Recovery

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      13.12C • Advanced Capstone: OT/ICS Safety-Conscious Assessment Challenge

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