Ethical Hacking Essentials (EHE)
Ethical Hacking Essentials is an introductory cybersecurity course that prepares students to begin their career in cybersecurity by teaching ethical hacking and penetration testing fundamentals. This course will introduce students to cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors such as web applications, wireless, mobile, IoT, network-level attacks, and countermeasures.
Students will learn what to expect in the field of ethical hacking and with 29 labs, this active learning course ensures that students receive the hands-on, practical experience to give them the skills necessary for a future in cybersecurity.
Objectives
- Discuss the key issues plaguing the information security world and review various information security laws and regulations.
- Comprehend Cyber Kill Chain Methodology, hacking and ethical hacking concepts, hacker classes, different phases of a hacking cycle, and assess essential ethical hacking tools.
- Examine various information security threats and vulnerabilities, identify different types of malware and perform vulnerability assessments.
- Explain and use different password cracking, social engineering, insider threats, and identity theft techniques, and discuss their countermeasures.
- Examine various network-level attacks, including sniffing, denial-of-service, and session hijacking, and discuss their countermeasures.
- Examine various application-level attacks, including webserver exploitation, OWASP top10 attacks, and SQL injection, and discuss their countermeasures.
- Discuss different types of wireless encryption, examine wireless threats and attacks, and suggest countermeasures.
- Describe various mobile platform attack vectors, mobile device management, mobile security guidelines, and identify essential mobile security tools.
- Discuss IoT and OT concepts, examine various IoT and OT threats and attacks, and suggest countermeasures.
- Describe various Cloud computing technologies, examine cloud computing threats and attacks, and identify security techniques.
- Discuss fundamentals of penetration testing, its benefits, strategies, and phases, and examine guidelines for penetration testing.
Outline
- Information Security Fundamentals
- Ethical Hacking Fundamentals
- Information Security Threats and Vulnerabilities
- Password Cracking Techniques and Countermeasures
- Social Engineering Techniques and Countermeasures
- Network Level Attacks and Countermeasures
- Web Application Attacks and Countermeasures
- Wireless Attacks and Countermeasures
- Mobile Attacks and Countermeasures
- IoT and OT Attacks and Countermeasures
- Cloud Computing Threats and Countermeasures
- Penetration Testing Fundamentals
Duration
Lectures: 1 year access to video lectures
Labs: 6 months access to labs
A voucher for taking the official EHE exam is included in the price
