Ethical Hacking and Countermeasures

Edward Snowden has opened the proverbial can of worms. The revelations that the NSA has systematically snooped on people, corporations and governments around the world has made everyone jittery. Also, the last year has seen an increase in the number of malicious hacking attacks from Eastern Europe and China. Several big companies and defense organizations have fallen prey to hackers despite investing in the latest security equipment.

So what went wrong? Though the networks were armed to the teeth with security firewalls and intrusion prevention devices, hackers could get in easily and steal what they wanted. Simply put, the hackers knew more about the network's vulnerabilities and loopholes than those in charge. So, they could get in and out with impunity. To understand the criminal mind, you have to think like one. To understand how a hacker works, you have to think like a hacker.

Enter the ethical hacker. Though ethical hackers have been around for a number of years now, they have been thrust into prominence after the events of last year.

Ethical hackers try to get into a network by stealth and uncover the loopholes and the gaps in the network security. As they work for the organization, and gaps or backdoors found are then covered up and strengthened before an actual criminal hacker finds them. And this process is repeated periodically so that the network remains secure and guarded.

Ethical hackers use several different techniques to try and penetrate a network and get access to resources. It could be something as simple as using a ping and go up all the way to a full fledged brute force or DoS attack.

Companies are now looking to hire specialized ethical hackers on a full time basis. Smaller organizations may look at free lancers on a per assignment basis. Whichever way you look at it ethical hackers are going to be in great demand for the next few years.

Zoom Technologies offers a comprehensive course in Ethical hacking and countermeasures. This is a vendor independent and cross platform course, designed to equip the student with a thorough understanding of the tools and techniques of ethical hacking. Students are expected to have a basic knowledge of TCP/IP networking. Students will learn to actually identify a network's vulnerabilities and penetrate it – and they will do it practically, not just learn the theory.

This is the only course which teaches both hacking and countermeasure techniques. And in keeping with Zoom's standards, this course is entirely hands-on, real-time oriented. And need we say, the instructors are network security and intrusion specialists with several years of experience. This course is offered in both online and classroom mode.

Brief Overview of the course:

• Hands on Ethical Hacking (sniffers, scanners,foot printing, tools, exploits , trojans, brute force attacks, DoS, D Dos, SQL injection , etc)

• Intrusion Prevention System - IPS

• Unified Threat Management - UTM

• Firewalls

• Cisco PIX / ASA

For more details about our exciting course offerings on Ethical Hacking, or any other course visit Zoom Group for further details.