EC-Council
Cybersecurity Attack and Defense Fundamentals Specialization
EC-Council

Cybersecurity Attack and Defense Fundamentals Specialization

Learn Ethical Hacking, Network Defense & Forensics. Master foundational skills to pursue a cybersecurity career and help build and maintain a secure infrastructure.

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.6

(414 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

5 months
at 5 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Information security threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks.

  • Network security assessment techniques and tools.

  • Computer forensics fundaments, digital evidence, and forensic investigation phases.

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Specialization - 3 course series

Ethical Hacking Essentials (EHE)

Course 132 hours4.6 (484 ratings)

What you'll 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

Skills you'll gain

Category: Ethica Hacking

Network Defense Essentials (NDE)

Course 231 hours4.6 (99 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Fundamental concepts of network security

  • Wireless network fundamentals, types of wireless encryption, and security measures

  • Identification, authentication, and authorization

  • Cryptography techniques, cryptographic algorithms, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Skills you'll gain

Category: Network Security

Digital Forensics Essentials (DFE)

Course 325 hours4.7 (140 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Network forensics fundamentals, event correlation, and network traffic investigation

  • Data acquisition concepts, types, format, and methodology

  • Computer forensics investigation process and its phases

  • Fundamental concepts of computer forensics

Skills you'll gain

Category: Digital Forensics
Category: Computer Forensics

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