Ethical Hacking and System Hardening

Dates: 26 Feb, 27 Feb, 28 Feb 2024 | 9am-5.30pm | Classroom Learning 

Duration: 3 Days

Course Overview

In our increasingly digitalised world, cyberthreats and cyberattacks are also alarmingly on the rise. Ethical hacking helps security professionals systematically footprint, enumerate, scan, and test-exploit their own systems. Based on the identified system weaknesses, the professionals can subsequently secure their systems by hardening the systems against future attacks.

This practice-oriented course demonstrates how cyberattacks can target hosts, networks, and web servers. It also demonstrates how the target systems can subsequently be hardened. With its hands-on approach, the course puts cybersecurity knowledge and concepts into practice by employing various offensive and defensive tools in attacking and defending systems, respectively. The participants will learn practical skills in conducting ethical hacking based on an attack methodology so as to discover weaknesses of target systems. For possible attacks, countermeasures are explained and hardening mechanisms can be applied. Topics covered include systematic attack methodology, system attacks, network attacks, and web attacks.

The course is targeted at those who need to plan and conduct vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. Upon completing this course, they are able to plan and conduct tests and checks in order to determine if infrastructure components, systems, and application meet security requirements.

This course is part of Professional Certificate in Cybersecurity Fundamentals and Ethical Hacking.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide participants with a foundation in:

• Overview of ethical hacking and systematic attack framework
• How to use cybersecurity tools for footprinting and enumerating target systems
• How to use cybersecurity tools for scanning for and exploiting vulnerabilities in target systems
• How to perform post-exploitation steps on exploited systems, such as password cracking and backdoor-access planting
• How to possible apply counter measures against attacks

At the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain ethical hacking’s objectives, stages, and available tools
• Utilise cybersecurity tools for footprinting and enumerating target systems
• Utilise cybersecurity tools for scanning for and exploiting vulnerabilities in target systems
• Utilise cybersecurity tools for performing post-exploitation steps on exploited systems
• Explain and apply possible counter measures against attacks

Who Should Attend

Penetration testers and cyber incident investigators.

Prerequisites

• Basic cybersecurity
• Linux Operating System
• Basic networking

What To Bring

Windows notebook equipped with Oracle VirtualBox software (available at https://www.virtualbox.org/).

Course Convener

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