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Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security

Ethical issues: responsible disclosure, responsibilities of the ethical hacker, grey areas balancing client requirements with legal and ethical boundaries

CYB504 · Ethical Hacking — Week 11 of 16

CourseCYB504
Week11 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Ethical issues: responsible disclosure, responsibilities of the ethical hacker, grey areas balancing client requirements with legal and ethical boundaries

  1. The responsibilities of an ethical hacker, including responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities
  2. The potential ethical dilemmas faced by penetration testers

What you will be able to do

  • 4.2 Analyse the responsibilities of an ethical hacker, including responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities.
  • 4.3 Evaluate the potential ethical dilemmas faced by penetration testers.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the responsibilities of an ethical hacker, including responsible disclosure of vulnerabilities.

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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