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Ethical Hacking
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Total fee

Free

Mode of learning

Online

Schedule type

Self paced

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Credential

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Ethical Hacking
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Swayam 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • Computer Science and Engineering
  • Information Technology
  • Electronics and Communication
  • Electrical Engineering
More about this course
  • Starting from the basic topics like networking, network security and cryptography, the course will cover various attacks and vulnerabilities and ways to secure them.
  • There will be hands-on demonstrations that will be helpful to the participants.
  • The participants are encouraged to try and replicate the demonstration experiments that will be discussed as part of the course.
  • The course is free to enroll and learn from.
  • But if student want a certificate, they have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
  • The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Ethical Hacking
 at 
Swayam 
Curriculum

Week 1:

Introduction to ethical hacking. Fundamentals of computer networking. TCP/IP protocol stack.

Week 2:

IP addressing and routing. TCP and UDP. IP subnets.

Week 3:

Routing protocols. IP version 6.

Week-4:

Installation of attacker and victim system. Information gathering using advanced google search archive.org, netcraft, whois, host, dig, dnsenum and NMAP tool.

Week-5:

Vulnerability scanning using NMAP and Nessus. Creating a secure hacking environment.

System Hacking: password cracking, privilege escalation, application execution. Malware and

Virus. ARP spoofing and MAC attack.

Week 6:

Introduction to cryptography, private-key encryption, public-key encryption.

Week 7:

Cryptographic hash functions, digital signature and certificate, applications.

Week 8:

Steganography, biometric authentication, network-based attacks, DNS and Email security.

Week-9:

Packet sniffing using wireshark and burpsuite, password attack using burp suite.

Social engineering attacks and Denial of service attacks.

Week 10:

Elements of hardware security: side-channel attacks, physical inclinable functions, hardware trojans.

Week-11:

Different types of attacks using Metasploit framework: password cracking, privilege escalation,remote code execution, etc.Attack on web servers: password attack, SQL injection, cross site scripting

Week 12:

Case studies: various attacks scenarios and their remedies.

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Ethical Hacking
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Faculty details

Prof. Indranil Sengupta
Prof. Indranil Sengupta has obtained his B.Tech., M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Calcutta. He joined the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, as a faculty member in 1988, in the Department of CSE, where he is presently a full Professor. He had been the former Heads of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and also the School of Information Technology of the Institute. He was also the Managing Director of Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Park (STEP), and the Professor-in-Charge of a Centre of Excellence in Information Assurance funded by the Ministry of Defense. He has over 30 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided 22 PhD students, and has more than 200 publications to his credit in international journals and conferences. His research interests include reversible and quantum computing, VLSI design and testing, and information security. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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Ethical Hacking
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