Certified Ethical Hacking Courses

A certification course in ethical hacking involves the study of a large number of topics. The division of topics to be studied depends upon the individual institutes. Topics studied under ethical hacking include introduction to ethical hacking, virus and worms, Linux hacking, physical security, session hijacking, footprinting, legality and ethics. Other subjects might include Google hacking, scanning, enumeration, networking and basics, system hacking, Windows hacking, hacking Web servers, Trojans and backdoors, proxy servers, phishing, social engineering, sniffers, denial of service attack, LDAP enumeration, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.

Other courses you might be able to take include cryptography tools, wireless network hacking and countermeasures, buffer overflows, reverse engineering, hacking database servers, computer forensics and incident handling, steganography, hacking routers and firewalls, password cracking tools, Web application vulnerabilities and SQL injection vulnerabilities. Another subject that could be covered is evading IDS, firewalls and detecting honey pot. A course could also include subjects such as privacy on the Internet, creating security policies, exploit writing, botnets, covering tracks and patch management. Depending upon the size, nature and affiliations of the institute, you may be able to complete an internship near the end of the course. However, this is completely subject to the individual institution.