Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

This class is designed to provide students an insight of current security scenario and increasing hacking attempts on various information systems. The goal of the ethical hacking and countermeasures is to help the organizations take preemptive measures against malicious attacks by attacking the system themselves staying within legal limits.

Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Assess ethical and legal requirements of security assessment and penetration testing and determine a strategy to comply with these requirements.

2. Analyze different phases of hacking and recommend the strategy to use ethical hacking for assessing security of various components of information system.

3. Compare and contrast different hacking techniques and analyze the legal implications of hacking.

4. Examine different vulnerabilities, threats and attacks to information systems and recommend the countermeasures.

5. Analyze cryptography algorithms and encryption techniques, and design implementation strategies for securing information

6. Compare and contrast various network security assessment and hacking tools.

7. Assess various network security techniques and tools and implement appropriate level of information security controls based on evidence, information, and research.