National CAE Designated Institution
  • Online, Instructor-Led
  • Classroom

Learning Objectives

Perform reconnaissance and footprinting procedures to collect information about potential targets.
Describe common social engineering attacks and policies to mitigate them.
Demonstrate password-cracking techniques and develop measures to strengthen passwords.
Deploy Metasploit framework to perform penetration testing on various systems.
Attack web applications using cross-site scripting (XSS), command injection and client-side exploitations.
Perform network analysis using common sniffing tools.
Install backdoors to compromise access privileges and system integrity.
Describe common attacks against cryptographic security measures.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Threat Analysis
  • Vulnerability Assessment and Management

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.