Post-Exploitation Basics

Summary

What happens after gaining access — maintaining persistence, moving laterally to other systems, and gathering evidence of impact, all carefully scoped within an authorized engagement.

• 1Practice basic post-exploitation techniques (like data enumeration) on a lab target.
• 2Learn why 'lateral movement' is often how attackers turn one compromised machine into a full breach.
• 3Understand post-exploitation activity should always stay within the agreed scope of an engagement.