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Ethical Hacker
Nanodegree Program
This program will equip students with the skills they need to advance in their security career and become an Ethical Hacker or Penetration Tester.
This program will equip students with the skills they need to advance in their security career and become an Ethical Hacker or Penetration Tester.
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2 months
Last Updated October 21, 2024
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Courses In This Program
Course 1 • 45 minutes
Welcome To the Ethical Hacker Nanodegree
Lesson 1
An Introduction to Your Nanodegree Program
Welcome! We're so glad you're here. Join us in learning a bit more about what to expect and ways to succeed.
Lesson 2
Getting Help
You are starting a challenging but rewarding journey! Take 5 minutes to read how to get help with projects and content.
Course 2 • 4 weeks
Introduction to Ethical Hacking
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the broad set of techniques and job responsibilities associated with the role of an Ethical Hacker. Ethical Hackers leverage their knowledge of business’ processes to evaluate risks while protecting core operations. The results of an Ethical Hacker’s efforts are improvements to business policies, procedures and standards of conduct on its computer systems.
Lesson 1
Welcome to Ethical Hacking
Meet the instructor, get an overview of the course and start learning about why Ethical Hacking is such an exciting field. Let's get started!
Lesson 2
Vulnerability Management
Perform a vulnerability scan using automated tools, manage prioritization and response, and score the vulnerabilities you uncover
Lesson 3
System Auditing
Use test scopes to understand the context and objectives of an audit, gather information about our target, research vulnerabilities, execute exploits, and write effective reports on our findings
Lesson 4
Application Auditing
Use OWASP WTG methodologies, create HTTP requests to access target systems and employ semi-automated and fully-automated tools in applications audits
Lesson 5
Social Engineering
Explore the tactics malicious hackers use to manipulate people to take specific actions, conduct a phishing simulation, create and deploy malware and design an effective landing page
Lesson 6
OSINT
Employ open-source intelligence techniques to uncover information leakage. Use Exploratory Link Analysis techniques to mine data, establish links between the data and analyze the links
Lesson 7 • Project
Audit ExampleCorp
Use the skills you have developed in this course to manage a full-fledged security audit of a fictitious company called ExampleCorp
Course 3 • 3 weeks
Penetration Testing and Red Teaming
The purpose of this course is to take a deep dive into the specific technique of penetration testing and how it can be used to perform a cybersecurity assessment on a specific system and conducted as a part of a specific penetration testing project within an organization to identify vulnerabilities, flaws and risks.
Lesson 1
Intro to Penetration Testing & Red Team Operations
Brief introduction and foundational knowledge around penetration testing and red teaming.
Lesson 2
Reconnaissance
In this lesson, we will dive into the first step of penetration testing which focusses on gathering information and data about the target, also known as Reconnaissance.
Lesson 3
Scanning & Research
In this lesson, we will use the information we obtained in reconnaissance to become informed and plan how to breach the target.
Lesson 4
Gaining Access
In this lesson, we will now execute on the information we have from reconnaissance, scanning, and research and will now execute on the plan of how to gain access on the target.
Lesson 5
Maintaining Access
In this lesson, we will learn how to maintain the access that we just go on the target.
Lesson 6
Covering Tracks & Reporting
In this lesson, we will learn how to stay under the radar of the target and not be noticed. And we will also organize all our thoughts in a final comprehensive report.
Lesson 7 • Project
Red Teaming Operations
This project will have you go through modern penetration tester and red teamer methodologies. You will create a documentation and testing efforts to generate a report in a timely fashion.
Course 4 • 10 minutes
Congratulations!
Lesson 1
Congratulations!
Congratulations on your graduation from this program! Please join us in celebrating your accomplishments.
Taught By The Best
Paul Oyelakin
Founder of PJ Pros
Paul Oyelakin is the founder of PJ Professional IT Services. He has experience in security compliance, penetration testing, and architecting network security solutions for business and government. He has an MBA, MS in Cybersecurity, and is a Certified Ethical Hacker & Information System Security Professional.
Sagar Bansal
Chairman at Bansal X
Sagar Bansal is a consultant, speaker, and author in the information security industry. He helps large enterprises, governments and intelligence agencies reduce the cost of security by creating reliable and proactive security workflows.
Ratings & Reviews
Average Rating: 4.1 Stars
23 Reviews
Reema M.
January 31, 2023
Amazing
Francis H.
August 17, 2022
It has been much harder than I expected. Although it can be mentally draining at times, nothing good comes out of easiness. I just think that the fact that the program is 2-3 years old, it seems like the Kali linux version might be out of date and some of the tools used during the course might not play well with an outdated version of Kali and so forth. Overall, no major issues and I've learned a whole lot!
sven v.
February 7, 2022
great
Enrico Maria C.
November 3, 2021
This was one of the best online courses I ever attended! Congrats!
Komsan N.
October 20, 2021
This program cover all about the basics of ethical hacking. As a software developer is really useful to audit our software system. For example finding vulnerabilities, even introducing various tools to help the job done.
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