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Approx. 32 hours to complete
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What you will learn

  • 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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Beginner Level
Approx. 32 hours to complete
English

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1
Week 1
2 hours to complete

Module 01: Information Security Fundamentals

2 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 55 min)
2 hours to complete

Module 02: Ethical Hacking Fundamentals

2 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 58 min)
Week2
Week 2
4 hours to complete

Module 03: Information Security Threats and Vulnerability Assessment

4 hours to complete
7 videos (Total 152 min)
2 hours to complete

Module 04: Password Cracking Techniques and Countermeasures

2 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 40 min)
Week3
Week 3
2 hours to complete

Module 05: Social Engineering Techniques and Countermeasures

2 hours to complete
6 videos (Total 71 min)
3 hours to complete

Module 06: Network Level Attacks and Countermeasures

3 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 62 min)
Week4
Week 4
3 hours to complete

Module 07: Web Application Attacks and Countermeasures

3 hours to complete
9 videos (Total 105 min)
2 hours to complete

Module 08: Wireless Attacks and Countermeasures

2 hours to complete
8 videos (Total 64 min)

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