Ethical Hacking

Description

In this course you will gain the skills necessary to become a security analyst/penetration tester. You will have already taken an introductory course on information security, and this course will give you an opportunity to learn more advanced tools for software analysis and exploitation, learn about the ethics of hacking and the responsible disclosure process.

The course will cover the following topics:

Ethics of hacking and responsible disclosure
Advanced exploitation tools (reconnaissance and payload generation)
Elements of cryptanalysis
Digital forensics
FORMAL PREREQUISITES
Before the course you must:

Be familiar with security principles and risk analysis,
Be familiar with network security, web and binary penetration testing
Know basics of security protocols and cryptography
Know basic algorithms and data structures
Be familiar with operating systems and architectures, databases and compilers
Have implemented at least two medium-size programming projects

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
After the course, the student should be able to:

Apply the principle of responsible disclosure
Discuss ethical issues in computer security
Apply cryptanalysis to break vulnerable encryption schemes
Apply semi-automated exploitation tools for web/database/binary vulnerabilities
Conduct digital forensics analysis

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