Ethical Hacking Essentials is an introductory cybersecurity course that covers ethical hacking and penetration testing fundamentals and prepares learners for a career in cybersecurity. This course will introduce learners to computer and network security concepts such as threats and vulnerabilities, password cracking, web application attacks, IoT and OT attacks, cloud computing, pentesting fundamentals, and more.
This course is part of the Cybersecurity Attack and Defense Fundamentals Specialization
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Fundamentals of information security and ethical hacking
Information security threats and vulnerabilities, types of malwares, and vulnerability assessments
Network-level attacks including sniffing, denial-of-service, and session hijacking, and their countermeasures
Application-level attacks including webserver exploitation, OWASP top10 attacks, and SQL injection and their countermeasures
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Module 01: Information Security Fundamentals
Module 02: Ethical Hacking Fundamentals
Module 03: Information Security Threats and Vulnerability Assessment
Module 04: Password Cracking Techniques and Countermeasures
Module 05: Social Engineering Techniques and Countermeasures
Module 06: Network Level Attacks and Countermeasures
Module 07: Web Application Attacks and Countermeasures
Module 08: Wireless Attacks and Countermeasures
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- 3 stars3.17%
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TOP REVIEWS FROM ETHICAL HACKING ESSENTIALS (EHE)
the course talked about labs a lot but none exist.
Great course and definitely reccomend this course to anyone who is wanting to enter the IT world.
Thank you soo much for this wonderful course. Best part about this course are the following
Instructor 10/10 , Study material 10/10 its just a perfect course
This course is well designed and wants more practical lectures.
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