Introduction to Ethical Hacking Udacity

Overview

The Introduction to Ethical Hacking course from Udacity leverage their knowledge of business’ processes to evaluate risks while protecting core operations. 

Key facts:

• The results of an Ethical Hacker’s efforts are improvements to business policies, procedures and standards of conduct on its computer systems.

What you will do during this course:

• Perform a vulnerability scan using automated tools, manage prioritization and response, and score the vulnerabilities you uncover
• 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
• Use OWASP WTG methodologies, create HTTP requests to access target systems and employ semi-automated and fully-automated tools in applications audits
• 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
• 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