The Hacking Essentials training course enables students to identify, counter and defend hackers from penetrating networks and gaining access to vital information. This will allow students to deploy proactive countermeasures and in turn, stay ahead of information security developments and exploited vulnerabilities. With this certification, professionals will gain a valuable credential commanding an average salary of over $100,000 per year. This course is also the prerequisite for the CHFI certification which will expand on the hacking techniques and lead into the area of cyber forensics and investigation. Topics included in this course are: DDOS Attacks, detection, policy creation, social engineering, virus creation and buffer overflows to name a few. Students will also be prepare to take the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification exam.

Course Syllabus

• 1.0 Intro
  • Pretest Intro
  • Questions
  • Pretest Summary
  • Intro to Ethical Hacking
• 2.0 Footprinting & Reconnaissance
• 3.0 Scanning Networks
• 4.0 Enumeration
• 5.0 System Hacking
• 6.0 Trojans & Backdoors
• 7.0 Viruses & Worms
• 8.0 Denial of Service
• 9.0 Social Engineering
• 10.0 Snffers
• 11.0 Session Hijacking
• 12.0 Hacking Web Servers
• 13.0 Web Application Vulnerabilities
• 14.0 SQL Injection
• 15.0 Hacking Wireless Networks
• 16.0 Evading IDS, Firewalls & Honeypots
• 17.0 Buffer Overflows
• 18.0 Cryptography & Steganography
• 19.0 Metasploit for Penertration Testing
  • Business Process
  • Lab Suggestions