Test web applications
Find and exploit XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, path traversal, file upload flaws, JWT attacks, SSRF, XXE and broken access control.
New cohort · 3 months
Become a hands-on Penetration Tester in 3 months
Find, exploit and fix real vulnerabilities in modern web apps, with live labs on PortSwigger, TryHackMe and Hack The Box.
4.6/5 from 2,337 student reviews
3
months, practical-driven
40+
guided hacking labs
4.6/5
teaching clarity (2,337 reviews)
98%
would take another course
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What you walk away with
By week 13 you can build and ship this yourself
Every week ends in a lab. You break something, understand why it broke, then learn how to fix it.
Work fluently in Linux
Use Linux as your primary hacking environment: file system, permissions, users, packages and essential CLI workflow.
Run network recon
Scan and enumerate hosts and services with Nmap and friends, and understand the threats and defences behind them.
Report like a professional
Plan and execute a full pentest workflow, document findings properly, and write the report a client would actually pay for.
Curriculum
3 months · practical-driven · built on real labs
This is not a slide deck about security. Switch between the lab platforms you train on and the full week-by-week plan.
PortSwigger Web Security labs
Guided labs covering XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, authentication, access control, SSRF and XXE, all driven through Burp Suite.
Hack The Box machines
Vulnerable machines where you practise network recon, exploitation, privilege escalation and post-exploitation.
TryHackMe rooms
Structured rooms that build your fundamentals in web attacks, networking, Linux and real-world security scenarios.
Final penetration test & report
Your capstone: scope and run a full pentest against a target web app, then deliver a professional written report.
- What cybersecurity is and why it matters
- The CIA triad and core security concepts
- Protecting personal information and digital hygiene
- Common cyber attacks and attack surfaces
- Ethical hacking roles and the industry
- Legal and ethical aspects, scope, rules of engagement
- Password storage basics: hashes and salts
- Cracking techniques: wordlists, brute force, hybrid attacks
- Programming basics: variables, conditions, loops, functions
- Reading and understanding scripts used in automation
- Writing simple scripts to automate security tasks
- How the web works: HTTP, requests, responses, cookies, sessions
- The OWASP Top 10 and web application architecture
- Cross-site scripting basics: reflected and stored
- Practising XSS on PortSwigger labs
- Cross-site request forgery concepts and impact
- Anti-CSRF tokens and common protections
- Business logic vulnerabilities: broken workflows, authorisation flaws
- Designing and exploiting logic flaws in labs
- Access control models and common failures including IDOR
- SQL injection: basics, UNION-based and error-based
- Blind and time-based SQL injection
- Automating exploitation with sqlmap
- Installing and running Linux: bare metal and VirtualBox
- Linux fundamentals and why they matter for hacking
- Terminal basics: navigation, files, directories
- Permissions and users: chmod, chown, sudo
- Package management with apt and dpkg
- Reconnaissance: passive versus active
- Subdomain enumeration with subfinder and httpx
- Introduction to the Metasploit Framework
- Basic exploitation workflow using Metasploit
- Chaining XSS and CSRF for real impact
- The DOM and client-side JavaScript behaviour
- DOM-based XSS: sources, sinks and exploitation
- Path and directory traversal, plus mitigation
- Cross-origin resource sharing and common misconfigurations
- File upload vulnerabilities: extension bypass, content-type tricks
- JSON Web Token fundamentals and common attacks
- Tampering with tokens using JWT Editor and Burp extensions
- Server-side request forgery and abusing server-side fetches
- Local and remote file inclusion
- XML external entity vulnerabilities and exploitation
- Practising with PortSwigger and lab-style exercises
- Networking basics: IP, ports, protocols, routing
- Network threats: sniffing, spoofing, MITM, misconfigurations
- Nmap for scanning and enumeration
- Hack The Box: solving network-based machines
- Scoping and planning a penetration test
- Recon, exploitation and post-exploitation on a target
- Writing a professional penetration testing report
- Presentation and feedback on your final project
Tools and technologies you will actually use in the program.
Next cohort
The next cohort is forming now
Apply to reserve your seat. Our team confirms the exact start date with you on the call. Pay once or spread it over 3 months.
Lab-heavy cohorts are capped so instructors can actually walk through your findings. Seats go first to applicants who complete the form.
Pay upfront
One payment, full program
$450
Total for the full 13-week program
- Full 3-month program, all lab platforms
- Recordings of every session
- Live Q&A twice a week with instructors
- Weekly hands-on hacking labs
- Final pentest project with report review
- YouBee.ai certificate & portfolio review
No payment on this page. We confirm by phone first.
Pay monthly
3 installments
$180
/month
$540 total over 3 months
- Everything in the upfront plan
- Spread the cost across the program
- No interest, no hidden fees
- Same start date and same access
Our team walks you through the schedule on the call.
1-week refund window
Not the right fit? Request a full refund within the first week after the cohort starts.
Nothing charged today
Applying is free. You speak to our team before any payment is arranged.
Session recordings
Every session is recorded and posted to your portal, so work and university still fit.
Student feedback
What 2,337 students actually told us
Straight from our anonymous post-course form. The same form we use to find what is broken.
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98%
would take another course
94%
rate their instructor 4★ or 5★
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Taking the cybersecurity course has been a great experience for me. The instructor was amazing. He was helpful and supportive. I have learned so much and it has helped me improve my skills.
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Best instructor ever. Thanks for your awesome explanation, plus I benefit greatly from your high experience, especially today's session and the great discussion with you.
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In general, well done. You guys are putting a lot of effort into the success of the courses. Thank you so much for giving the opportunity of feedback.
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A very helpful course that exceeded my expectations. Clear, informative, and overall an excellent experience.
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Professional instructors. It is very good, no comment.
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It is a perfect course. The instructor explains everything clearly and responds to every question asked, and repeats each point several times to ensure full understanding.
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Taking the cybersecurity course has been a great experience for me. The instructor was amazing. He was helpful and supportive. I have learned so much and it has helped me improve my skills.
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Best instructor ever. Thanks for your awesome explanation, plus I benefit greatly from your high experience, especially today's session and the great discussion with you.
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In general, well done. You guys are putting a lot of effort into the success of the courses. Thank you so much for giving the opportunity of feedback.
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A very helpful course that exceeded my expectations. Clear, informative, and overall an excellent experience.
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Professional instructors. It is very good, no comment.
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It is a perfect course. The instructor explains everything clearly and responds to every question asked, and repeats each point several times to ensure full understanding.
Why YouBee.ai
Why this trains testers, not certificate collectors
Web app pentesting first
Focused on the vulnerabilities that actually appear in assessments: XSS, CSRF, SQLi, SSRF, LFI/RFI and business logic bugs.
Industry tools, not toys
Burp Suite, Nmap, sqlmap, subfinder, httpx, Metasploit, VirtualBox and JWT Editor: the real kit, used the real way.
Linux & networking grounding
The fundamentals every penetration tester is expected to have before anyone will trust them with a scope.
CTF and assessment ready
Train on PortSwigger, TryHackMe and Hack The Box so you can handle real assessments and competitions with confidence.
Who this is for
Built for people who want a job, not a certificate
Web developers
You build web apps and want to move into application security, the fastest and most natural transition into the field.
This is youAspiring penetration testers
You want a guided, practical path into web app pentesting and network security instead of a scattered YouTube playlist.
This is youCareer switchers
Students and professionals pivoting into cybersecurity with a structured, mentor-guided roadmap and real labs.
This is you
FAQ
Questions people ask before applying
Not much. Week 3 is dedicated to the programming you need for security work: variables, loops, functions and simple automation scripts. You do need to be comfortable using a computer and willing to live in a terminal.
Everything you practise on is a deliberately vulnerable lab environment: PortSwigger Web Security Academy, TryHackMe and Hack The Box. Week 2 covers legality, scope and rules of engagement before you touch anything. We do not teach attacks against systems you do not own or have permission to test.
Practical web application penetration testing: the OWASP Top 10, XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, access control, SSRF, XXE, LFI/RFI, file uploads and JWT attacks, plus Linux fundamentals, network recon with Nmap, Metasploit basics, and a final pentest with a professional report.
It builds the practical foundation those rely on. You train on the same platforms used for CTFs and hands-on exams, which is the hard part. The program itself does not include a certification exam voucher.
A laptop that can comfortably run a virtual machine. We walk you through installing Linux in VirtualBox and setting up Burp Suite and the rest of the toolkit in week 7.
Yes. The program is primarily asynchronous: weekly recorded sessions and a structured roadmap at your own pace, with two optional live Q&A sessions a week. The labs are the part that needs real time from you.
Yes. You can request a full refund within the first week after the cohort start date.
A reduced price for applying before the published deadline. The countdown on this page is live. Once it reaches zero, standard pricing applies to new applications.
Yes. You receive a YouBee.ai certificate after completing the program and submitting your final penetration testing project and report.
Our team calls or messages you on WhatsApp to confirm your details, answer your questions and arrange payment. Applying costs nothing and does not lock you into anything.
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