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Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security

Documenting and reporting: action logs, evidence capture, reproducibility and the exploit report

CYB504 · Ethical Hacking — Week 10 of 16

CourseCYB504
Week10 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Documenting and reporting: action logs, evidence capture, reproducibility and the exploit report

  1. Documenting and reporting: action logs, evidence capture, reproducibility and the exploit report
  2. Risk evaluation and mitigation recommendations

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Analyse results to document actions, evidence, and vulnerabilities, and to provide security recommendations through an exploit report.
  • 3.4 Evaluate results to enact steps to mitigate vulnerabilities.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse results to document actions, evidence, and vulnerabilities, and to provide security recommendations through an exploit report.

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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