Ethical Hacking

What you'll learn

• Apply ethical, legal, and governance principles for responsible security testing
• Perform footprinting, reconnaissance, scanning, and evasion in hybrid environments
• Enumerate services and identify vulnerabilities across on-prem, cloud, container, and serverless systems
• Exploit systems, escalate privileges, and establish covert persistence while maintaining operational safety
• Assess and exploit modern web applications and APIs, including automated attack tooling
• Analyze malware, detect sandbox evasion, and inspect encrypted traffic for Indicators of Compromise
• Design and simulate DoS/DDoS and botnet orchestration techniques in controlled labs
• Evaluate IoT/OT security risks and apply defensive controls for embedded systems
• Integrate vulnerability analysis into DevSecOps pipelines and prioritize remediation
• Apply threat modeling, incident response practices, and AI-augmented detection with measurable outcomes

Prerequisites

Basic networking and Linux knowledge, familiarity with programming/scripting (e.g., Python), and prior exposure to core information security concepts; authorization to use lab environments.

Skills you'll gain

• Network reconnaissance
• Vulnerability assessment
• Exploit development
• Privilege escalation
• Persistence & covert operations
• Web & API security testing
• Malware analysis
• Encrypted traffic inspection
• Cloud & container security
• IoT/OT assessment
• Threat modeling & risk analysis
• Incident response & reporting