EC-Council Ethical Hacking Essentials (EHE)

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 ethical hacking course will introduce learners to computer and network security concepts such as threats and vulnerabilities, password cracking, web application attacks, loT and OT attacks, cloud computing, pentesting fundamentals, and more. EC-Council’s ethical hacking essentials course provides hands-on practical experience to learners, thus giving them the skills necessary for a future in cybersecurity. Put your newly acquired abilities to the test with an exhilarating Capture the Flag (CTF) Exercise seamlessly integrated in our Capstone project. This CTF is seamlessly integrated by live virtual machines, genuine software, and real networks, all delivered within a secure and regulated sandbox environment. With these exclusive hands-on, human-versus-machine CTF challenges you will develop the hands-on proficiencies essential for success in your cyber professional role.

• Key issues plaguing the information security world and information security laws and standards.
• Fundamentals of ethical hacking
• Information security threats and vulnerabilities
• Different types of malware
• Different types of password-cracking techniques and countermeasures
• Social engineering techniques, insider threats, identity theft, and countermeasures
• Network level attacks (sniffing, denial-of-service, and session hijacking) and countermeasures.
• Application-level attacks (web-server attacks, web application attacks, and SQL injection) and countermeasures
• Wireless encryption, wireless threats, and countermeasures
• Mobile platform attack vector, mobile device management, mobile security guidelines, and security tools
• IoT and OT concepts, attacks, and countermeasures
• Cloud computing technologies, cloud computing threats, attacks, and security techniques
• Fundamentals of pen testing

• School students, fresh graduates, Professionals, Career starters and switchers, IT / Technology / Cybersecurity teams with little or no work experience.
• Anyone who wants to start their cybersecurity career and master the fundamentals of security online.
• Anyone who wants to prepare for a cybersecurity career and aid their IT education.
• Professionals who want to get into the cybersecurity field but are unsure where to start their education journey