Course Objectives

Elements that are covered in this course are as follows:

• Developing the hacker's mind
• Network surveying
• Port scanning
• System identification / OS fingerprinting
  
• Vulnerability research and verification
  
• Service identification
  
• Internet application testing
• Document grinding
  
• Recognizing security issues with an organization
• Performing legal assessments on remote / foreign networks
• Examining on organization for weaknesses as through the eyes of an industrial spy or competitor
• Implementing the right tools for each task of the Methodology
• Competitive Intelligence
• Exploiting vulnerabilities remotely
  
• Examining appropriate countermeasures to thwart malicious hacking
  

Prerequisites

To ensure your success, it is required that you first take the following course or have equivalent knowledge:

• CompTia Security+
  

Course Benefits

This class will immerse the student into an interactive environment where they will be shown how to scan, test, and secure their own systems. The lab-intensive environment gives each student in-depth knowledge and practical experience with the current essential security systems. Students will begin by understanding how perimeter defenses work and then be led into scanning and attacking their own networks. Students then learn how intruders escalate privileges and what steps can be taken to secure a system. Students will also learn about intrusion detection, policy creation, social engineering, open source intelligence, incident handling, and log interpretation.

Course Duration

40 Hours