Ethical Hacker

Overview

The Ethical Hacker Learning Path includes a variety of security courses that will vary depending on whether you are seeking core, advanced or elite paths. This path is geared towards individuals responsible for assessing systems and networks within the network environment and identifying where those systems/networks deviate from acceptable configurations, enclave policy, or local policy. Courses provide a solid foundation of the skills needed to measure the effectiveness of defense-in-depth architecture against known vulnerabilities and verify and improve the security of a company’s computer systems.

This learning path provides the knowledge and skills necessary to:

• Analyze cyber defense policies and configurations
• Evaluate compliance with regulations and organizational directives
• Conduct and/or support authorized penetration testing on enterprise network assets
• Deploy cyber defense audit toolkit to support cyber defense audit missions
• Maintain knowledge of applicable cyber defense policies, regulations, and compliance documents specifically related to cyber defense auditing
• Prepare audit reports that identify technical and procedural findings and provide recommended remediation strategies/solutions
• Conduct required reviews as appropriate within an environment
• Perform evaluation of technology and of people and operations risk
• Perform vulnerability assessments of relevant technology focus areas
• Make recommendations regarding the selection of cost-effective security controls to mitigate risk