Mon-Fri: 8:00am – 19:00pm

Cybersecurity Professional

The cybersecurity professional certificate course is geared towards creating the absolute cybersecurity expert, equally at ease in providing security for futuristic networks and legacy systems.

The cybersecurity professional course provides comprehensive training in all aspects of cyber defense methodologies. This course covers the proactive defense mechanisms required of a cybersecurity professional including ethical hacking, firewalls, IPS, vulnerability assessment and cryptography. Vital cybersecurity reactive techniques are also discussed including SIEM, mobile and digital forensics, log analysis and patch management. This course consists of three modules viz

1.Security Risk Assessment (Ethical Hacking)
2.Proactive Defense and Countermeasures
3.Incident Response and Management

A thorough understanding of the underlying principles of networking and operating systems is a prerequisite to pursuing this advanced course. The student is expected to be knowledgeable in IP networks, TCP / IP stack, protocols like http, https, ICMP, ARP, services like DNS, DHCP, LDAP, telnet, ssh as well as routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, BGP, etc. Expertise in Linux and Windows servers and related technologies is a must.


Key Topics:

  • Security Risk Assessment
  • Dos and DDos Attacks
  • Attack Mitigation Techniques
  • Firewalls, IDS, IPS
  • Cryptography
  • Incident Response and Management
  • Log Analysis
  • Forensics

The course will cover:

Module 1: Security Risk Assessment (Ethical Hacking)

Module 1: Introduction to Cybersecurity

  • What is Hacking
  • What is Ethical Hacking
  • What is Penetration Testing
  • What is Vulnerability Auditing

Module 1: Footprinting

  • What is FootPrinting
  • Footprinting Techniques
  • Footprinting Website & Tools

Module 1: Scanning

  • What is Network scanning
  • Types of Scanners
  • Vulnerability Scanner Tools

Module 1: Proxy

  • What is a proxy server
  • Types of proxies
  • What is a Darkweb
  • Why hackers prefer to use Darkweb

Module 1: Hacking Web Servers & Web Applications

  • What is a web server
  • Types of web attacks

Module 1: Session Hijacking

  • What is session hijacking
  • Session hijacking Techniques
  • Session hijacking Tools

Module 1: Denial of Service

  • What is a DoS and DDoS attack
  • DoS attack techniques
  • DoS attack Tools

Module 1: System Hacking

  • What is System Hacking
  • What is Password Cracking
  • Password Cracking techniques
  • Password Cracking Website & Tools

Module 1: Sniffers

  • What is a sniffer
  • Sniffing Techniques
  • Sniffing Tools

Module 1: Phishing

  • What is Phishing
  • Phishing Techniques
  • Phishing Tools

Module 1: Malware

  • What is malware
  • Types of malware
  • Malware creation Tools
  • USB password stealers

Module 1: Wireless Hacking

  • Types of wireless networks
  • Wireless Hacking Techniques
  • Wireless Hacking Tools

Module 1: Kali Linux

  • What is Kali Linux
  • Kali Linux Tools

Module 2: Proactive Defence and Countermeasures

Module 2: Introduction to Security

  • What is security?
  • Layer 1 Security
  • Layer 2 Security
  • Layer 3 security

Module 2: Firewalls

  • What is a Firewall?
  • Types of firewalls
  • Designing Security with Firewalls
  • NAT
  • Security Policy
  • Logs Management
  • Application Security
  • Content / Web Security
  • Authentication

Module 2: Virtual Private Networks

  • What is VPNs
  • Type of VPNs
  • GRE
  • IPSEC
  • SSL

Module 2: Intrusion Prevention Systems

  • What is an Intrusion Detection System?
  • What is an Intrusion Prevention System?

Module 2: High Availability Virtual / Cloud Devices Security Host Security

  • OS Hardening
  • Patch management
  • Antivirus
  • Endpoint Security

Module 3: SIEM & Incident Response

Module 3: SIEM

  • SIEM
    • What is SIEM
  • Incident Response
    • What is Incident Response

Live Classroom


This course is only available in live classroom mode through our partners. Kindly contact us at: info@us-council.com for more details.


Course Outline


For Certification: Click Here

Get this course from our authorized training partner. Click Here