IT & Software

Last updated: August 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. See our review methodology. THE SHORT VERSION Most passwords are not cracked. They are stolen. Guessing attacks still exist and still work against weak systems, but the techniques doing the most damage now take the password — or the session it created — without breaking […]

Last updated: August 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. Every tool below was loaded at its current URL and checked against its source repository before publication — four tools from our previous version are dead and six had been renamed or acquired out from under their old links. See our review methodology. QUICK VERDICT

Last updated: August 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. Every standard named below was loaded and date-checked before publication — one of the six turned out to be abandoned, and its former home now sells legal forms. See our review methodology. QUICK VERDICT Bottom line: Every credible penetration test follows the same seven phases

Last updated: August 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. Every tool named below was confirmed actively maintained against its source repository before publication. See our review methodology. QUICK VERDICT Bottom line: Network penetration testing splits into two jobs that share a name and almost nothing else. An external test attacks a small, hardened perimeter

Last updated: August 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. Every tool below was checked for active maintenance at its own repository or vendor site before publication — two entries from our previous version failed that check and were removed. See our review methodology. QUICK VERDICT Bottom line: Web application testing is done through an

Last updated: August 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. See our review methodology. QUICK VERDICT Bottom line: You do not really learn Kali — you learn to hack, and Kali is where you do it. That matters more than it sounds, because when we opened and date-checked every Kali-branded course we could find, most

Active Directory runs identity for most of corporate on-prem IT, and “knows AD properly” — not just resetting passwords, but Group Policy, delegation, and now hybrid Entra ID — remains one of the most reliably employable sysadmin skills. This guide covers the best Active Directory courses in 2026 and answers the certification-cost question this page’s

Last updated: June 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. See our review methodology. QUICK VERDICT Bottom line: If you’re new to Jira, start with Jira for Beginners (4.6★). If you run agile projects, Atlassian’s own Agile with Atlassian Jira (4.7★, on Coursera) is the better fit. Most picks here are inexpensive Udemy courses; Atlassian’s

By Josh Hutcheson · Updated July 2026 · Every course below was load-tested this month, with current ratings and last-updated dates pulled directly from the platform. Good PLC training is hard to judge from a course card. Industrial automation moves slowly compared to web development, so a 2019 course can still teach you plenty —

Last updated: August 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson. We re-verified all 15 picks live on 12 August 2026 — ratings, enrollment, last-updated dates and course titles were read from each platform on the day of publication. See our review methodology. Quick Picks — Best Automation Testing Courses (2026) Best overall (Selenium): Selenium WebDriver with Java

Last updated: July 2026. Written by Josh Hutcheson, OnlineCourseing editor. QUICK VERDICT Best overall: Complete Guide to Elasticsearch by Frank Kane is the clear pick — 4.7 stars from 25,000+ ratings, 155,000+ students, and refreshed in 2026 for the current Elastic Stack. It covers search, aggregations, and the whole ELK pipeline hands-on. Best for the

Windows Server administration remains the backbone skill of on-prem and hybrid IT — and with Server 2025 now current, course dating matters more than usual. This guide ranks the best Windows Server courses in 2026, verified live this month, with the certification landscape decoded (it changed more than most course pages admit). The short version: