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Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security

Phases of penetration testing (reconnaissance, scanning, vulnerability assessment with CVE, exploitation, reporting) and its benefits: compliance, attack prevention and research

CYB504 · Ethical Hacking — Week 2 of 16

CourseCYB504
Week2 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Phases of penetration testing (reconnaissance, scanning, vulnerability assessment with CVE, exploitation, reporting) and its benefits: compliance, attack prevention and research

  1. The key stages of penetration testing, including reconnaissance, scanning, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, and reporting
  2. The benefits of penetration testing from a variety of perspectives

What you will be able to do

  • 1.4 Analyse the key stages of penetration testing, including reconnaissance, scanning, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, and reporting.
  • 1.5 Critically evaluate the benefits of penetration testing from a variety of perspectives.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the key stages of penetration testing, including reconnaissance, scanning, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, and reporting.

Study materials

The teaching notes, exercises and videos of this week are in the student portal. Your portal is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance, so you can open them before the semester starts.
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Penetration testing as offensive security and as a deep for…
  • Week 2: Phases of penetration testing (reconnaissance, scanning, vu…
  • Week 3: Legal frameworks and standards: Computer Misuse Act, CFAA, …
  • Week 4: Reconnaissance: collecting top-level information such as IP…
  • Week 5: Enumeration lab: active vs. passive enumeration, packet sni…
  • Week 6: Scanning lab: port scanning techniques (TCP Connect, SYN, U…
  • Week 7: Exploitation lab: injection, buffer overflows, XSS, privile…
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Post-exploitation: privilege escalation, maintaining access…
  • Week 10: Documenting and reporting: action logs, evidence capture, r…
  • Week 11: Ethical issues: responsible disclosure, responsibilities of…
  • Week 12: Applying Ethical Hacking in practice: case studies
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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