01. Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Build a strong foundation in ethical hacking, cybersecurity principles, attack classifications, hacker methodologies, risk management, security frameworks, and the ethical hacking process. Learn how AI tools are being used in modern cybersecurity.

02. Footprinting & Reconnaissance

Learn advanced information-gathering techniques using OSINT, search engines, WHOIS, DNS, social networks, email footprinting, and other reconnaissance methods. Explore AI-powered reconnaissance and intelligence-gathering techniques.

03. Scanning Networks

Understand host discovery, port scanning, service and OS detection, banner grabbing, network scanning tools, and techniques for identifying network weaknesses while bypassing common security controls.

04. Enumeration

Learn how to identify users, services, network resources, shares, and system information through enumeration techniques. Explore protocols and services such as SMB, SNMP, LDAP, DNS, NFS, and Active Directory.

05. Vulnerability Analysis

Learn how to discover, assess, prioritize, and validate vulnerabilities in systems and networks using vulnerability assessment methodologies and security tools.

06. System Hacking

Understand the complete system-hacking process, including password attacks, privilege escalation, credential attacks, persistence, covering tracks, and techniques used to identify and secure compromised systems.

07. Malware Threats

Learn about viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, spyware, rootkits, fileless malware, and other modern malware threats. Understand malware analysis concepts, detection techniques, and mitigation strategies.

08. Sniffing

Learn network traffic analysis, packet sniffing, protocol analysis, and techniques used to identify weaknesses in network communications. Understand how sniffing attacks are detected and prevented.

09. Social Engineering

Explore advanced social engineering techniques including phishing, spear phishing, impersonation, baiting, physical attacks, and human-based security weaknesses. Learn how organizations can identify and defend against these attacks.

10. Denial-of-Service

Understand DoS and DDoS attack concepts, attack vectors, botnets, resource exhaustion, and the security measures used to detect, mitigate, and defend against denial-of-service attacks.

11. Session Hijacking

Learn how attackers target authentication and session management weaknesses. Understand session hijacking techniques, cookie-based attacks, session security, and methods for protecting user sessions.

12. Evading IDS, Firewalls & Honeypots

Understand how security controls detect malicious activity and learn the concepts behind IDS/IPS, firewall, and honeypot evasion. Explore network defense techniques and methods for improving detection.

13. Hacking Web Servers

Learn web server architecture, common vulnerabilities, server misconfigurations, authentication weaknesses, directory attacks, and methods used to assess and secure web server infrastructures.

14. Hacking Web Applications

Explore advanced web application security concepts including authentication, authorization, input validation, session management, API security, and common web application vulnerabilities.

15. SQL Injection

Understand SQL injection attacks, database security weaknesses, different injection techniques, detection methods, and defensive strategies for securing database-driven applications.

16. Hacking Wireless Networks

Learn wireless security concepts, encryption protocols, authentication mechanisms, wireless attack techniques, network analysis, and methods for securing Wi-Fi environments against common attacks.

17. Hacking Mobile Platforms

Explore mobile security concepts covering Android and iOS platforms, mobile attack vectors, application security, device management, mobile vulnerabilities, and defensive security practices.

18. IoT & OT Hacking

Learn security risks affecting Internet of Things and Operational Technology environments. Understand IoT/OT attack surfaces, vulnerabilities, attack methodologies, and security controls for connected and industrial systems.

19. Cloud Computing

Understand cloud architecture, cloud security threats, virtualization, containers, serverless technologies, cloud attack surfaces, identity and access security, and techniques for securing cloud environments.

20. Cryptography

Master essential cryptography concepts including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, PKI, certificates, email and disk encryption, cryptanalysis, blockchain security, quantum computing risks, and post-quantum security concepts.

Practical & Advanced Learning

Along with the core modules, students will work with industry-standard ethical hacking and security tools, practical attack scenarios, vulnerability assessment, reconnaissance, network analysis, web security testing, and hands-on cybersecurity exercises in controlled environments.

What Students Will Build

By the end of the course, students will understand the complete ethical hacking methodology—from reconnaissance and scanning to vulnerability analysis, gaining access, maintaining access, and defensive countermeasures—while developing practical skills relevant to Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, Red Teaming, Vulnerability Assessment, and Cybersecurity.