M2 CPEH: Certified Professional Ethical Hacker

This course enables students to understand the importance of vulnerability assessments by providing industry knowledge and skills in Vulnerability Assessments. In doing so, the Certified Professional Ethical Hacker (CPEH) student is able to understand how malware and destructive viruses function. In addition, the CPEH course helps students learn how to implement counter-response and preventative measures when it comes to a network hack.

This course provides in-depth labs that focus on both open-source and commercial-based tools with industry best practices. These hands-on labs emulate real-world hacking scenarios and equip the candidate to assess your company’s security posture, help implement controls to better secure your company’s network infrastructure and how to combat hackers and/or viruses, etc.

Course Modules:

1. Course Introduction
2. Introduction to Ethical Hacking
3. Linux Fundamentals
4. Protocols
5. Cryptography
6. Password Cracking
7. Malware
8. Security Devices
9. Information Gathering – Passive Reconnaissance
10. Social Engineering
11. Active Reconnaissance
12. Vulnerability Assessment
13. Network Attacks
14. Hacking Servers
15. Hacking Web Technologies
16. Hacking Wireless Technologies
17. Maintaining Access and Covering Tracks

Course Labs:

1. Intro to C)PEH Setup
2. Linux Fundamentals
3. Understanding Protocols
4. Cryptography Lab
5. Password Cracking
6. Malware
7. Information Gathering
8. Vulnerability Assessment
9. Network Sniffing/IDS
10. Windows Hacking
11. Attacking Databases
12. Attacking Web Applications
13. Backdoors

The Certified Professional Ethical Hacker exam is taken online through Mile2’s Assessment and Certification System (“MACS”), which is accessible on your mile2.com account. The exam will take 2 hours and consist of 100 multiple-choice questions. The cost is $500 USD and must be purchased from Mile2.com.