Harness Rust’s Power for High-Performance Security Tools: Defensive, Offensive, and Forensics !
This 4-day intensive training equips security professionals with practical Rust cybersecurity skills, combining offensive, defensive, and forensic techniques for next-generation security tool development.
⏳ 32 hours
Master Rust fundamentals with an emphasis on memory safety, concurrency, and modular design. Build powerful networking and CLI tools for defensive security, ensuring performance and reliability.
Develop in-memory forensics tools, scan live processes, and extract sensitive data. Build an EDR system, integrate network traffic monitoring, and detect malicious activities in real-time.
Implement high-performance reconnaissance tools, build a custom port scanner, and develop a RAT-based C2 framework. Explore secure communication, evasion techniques, and attack automation.
👨💻 25+ hands-on exercises & labs
♾️ Lifetime access
📖 280+ digital and printable slides
📝 Assignments to apply your new skills
💯 Certificate of completion
This course is for anyone who's looking for a hands-on and pragmatic approach to audit and secure Rust code such as:
✔ Code Auditors
✔ Security engineers
✔ Vulnerability researchers
✔ Pentesters & Red team professionals
Morning: Foundations of Rust for Cybersecurity Tools
Ownership, borrowing, and memory safety
Concurrency and multithreading basics
Error handling in Rust
Building CLI tools and managing configurations
Networking basics with Rust
Afternoon: Advanced Rust Techniques for Modular Security Tools
Lifetimes and advanced ownership patterns
Smart pointers (Rc, Arc, Mutex) and interior mutability
Designing modular and extensible Rust applications
Handling file system events
Morning: High-Speed OSINT with Rust
Web scraping and crawling with async Rust
Interacting with APIs and JSON for OSINT
Extracting useful metadata and subdomain enumeration
Afternoon: In-Memory Forensics and Process Analysis
Understanding memory process structures
Using Rust for memory scanning and dumping
Analyzing dumped data for patterns or sensitive information
Morning: Rapid Recon and Vulnerability Mapping
Writing high-performance port scanners in Rust
Using async Rust for parallel scanning
Automating basic vulnerability detection
Afternoon: Building a Command and Control (C2) Framework
Basics of RAT (Remote Access Tool) development
Securely managing communication between client and server
Cross-platform considerations for offensive tools
Morning: Network Traffic Monitoring and Threat Detection
Capturing network packets with Rust libraries (pcap, libpnet)
Parsing and filtering network traffic for actionable insights
Detecting malicious payloads (e.g., URLs, patterns)
Afternoon: Advanced Forensics and Memory Integration
Integrating forensic tools into an EDR framework
Refining memory scanning and analysis techniques
Correlating memory dumps with network monitoring insights
Familiarity with Linux and Rust.
A working laptop capable of running virtual machines
4GB RAM required, at a minimum
40 GB free Hard disk space
VirtualBox
Administrator/root access MANDATORY
This course is suitable for people that are new to Rust. All the theory and concepts about Rust security and Rust fuzz testing will be explained during the course.