Introduction to Ethical Hacking

This course introduces students to cyber security and ethical hacking techniques. The course will primarily focus on ethical cybersecurity hacking, information protection and assurance, and computer systems and networks security. Ethical Hacking is the use of hacking tools and techniques to gain access to secure resources to improve the security posture of an organization. This course provides the essentials for understanding the security threats to information systems, the methods to counter these threats, and the state-of-the-art implementations and applications of cybersecurity systems. The objectives are to

• Understand the basic security models, concepts, possible attack vectors, and hacking applications
• Learn basic mathematic knowledge and tools for building, analyzing, and attacking modern Windows systems
• Understand cryptographic algorithms and hash functions inside a Windows environment 
• Gain hands-on experience penetration testing in a secure and authorized environment with Metasploitable 2 and Kali Linux
• Understand exploitation techniques and red teaming skills inside stenography
• Understand Internet security protocol and standards such as ICMP, SSH, etc.

Course Material

 

Below are some of the Course Material completed in CYSE 450 during my duration at Old Dominion University with Prof. Vasta: