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Silver Path (SOCA)

The full route to the Silver credential. Fundamentals, then AI-assisted exploitation and attacking AI systems at Foundation and Associate level.

10 modules · ~23 min total

Fundamentals

1T0 · Offensive Security Fundamentals · 3 minWhat is offensive security?The discipline of attacking your own systems on purpose, under rules, to find what a real adversary would before they do. The opening map of the field.
2T0 · Offensive Security Fundamentals · 3 minThe penetration-test lifecycleThe arc every engagement follows: scoping, recon, enumeration, exploitation, post-exploitation, reporting and retest, and what done looks like in each phase.
3T0 · Offensive Security Fundamentals · 3 minRules of engagement and scopingThe contract that turns hacking into a profession: what is in bounds, what is forbidden, who is authorised, and what happens when something goes wrong. Get this right before you touch anything.
4T0 · Offensive Security Fundamentals · 3 minThe kill chain and MITRE ATT&CKTwo shared languages for describing how an intrusion unfolds: the linear kill chain for the arc of an attack, and the ATT&CK matrix for the catalogue of techniques along it.

Wield AI

5T2 · AI-Assisted Exploitation · 2 minUsing AI Copilots in Offensive WorkWhere an LLM copilot genuinely accelerates an engagement, where it hallucinates dangerously, and the verification discipline that separates a professional from a script-runner.
6T2 · AI-Assisted Exploitation · 1 minPayload Crafting with LLMsUsing a model to accelerate payload development and obfuscation reasoning in an authorised test, with the verification and encoding discipline that keeps it reliable.
7T2 · AI-Assisted Exploitation · 2 minChaining Findings with an AI CopilotMoving from single findings to an attack path. Using a copilot to reason about how weaknesses combine, while keeping the copilot's optimism on a leash.

Attack AI

8T3 · Attacking AI Systems · 2 minPrompt Injection FundamentalsHow untrusted input becomes instructions, why the LLM can't tell data from commands, and the direct vs. indirect injection split that defines the attack surface.
9T3 · Attacking AI Systems · 2 minAttacking RAG PipelinesRetrieval-augmented generation widens the attack surface, because every document in the store is untrusted input. Indirect injection, retrieval poisoning, and embedding-space attacks.
10T3 · Attacking AI Systems · 2 minAttacking AI Agents & MCPWhen an LLM can call tools, prompt injection stops being a text problem and becomes a code-execution one. Tool abuse, confused-deputy chains, and exploiting Model Context Protocol servers.

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