EC-Council Certified Security Specialist v9

Learning Objectives for ECSS v9 Training Course

• Key issues plaguing the information security, network security and computer forensics
• Fundamentals of networks and various components of the OSI and TCP/IP model
• Various network security protocols
• Various types of information security threats and attacks, and their countermeasures
• Social engineering techniques, identify theft, and social engineering countermeasures
• Different stages of hacking cycle
• Identification, authentication, and authorization concepts
• Different types of cryptography ciphers, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), cryptography attacks and cryptanalysis tools
• Fundamentals of firewall, techniques for bypassing firewall, and firewall technologies such as Bastion Host, DMZ, Proxy Servers, Network Address Translation, Virtual Private Network, and Honeypot
• Fundamentals of IDS and IDS evasion techniques
• Data backup techniques and VPN security
• Wireless Encryption, wireless threats, wireless hacking tools, and Wi-Fi security
• Different types of web server and web application attacks, and countermeasures
• Fundamentals of ethical hacking and pen testing
• Incident handling and response process
• Cyber-crime and computer forensics investigation methodology
• Different types of digital evidence and digital evidence examination process
• Different type of file systems and their comparison (based on limit and features)
• Gathering volatile and non-volatile information from Windows and network forensics analysis mechanism
• Steganography and its techniques
• Different types of log capturing, time synchronization, and log capturing tools
• E-mails tracking and e-mail crimes investigation
  Writing investigation report

Module 1: Information Security Fundamentals

Module 2: Networking Fundamentals

Module 3: Secure Network Protocols

Module 4: Information Security Threats and Attacks

Module 5: Social Engineering

Module 6: Hacking Cycle

Module 7: Identification, Authentication, and Authorization

Module 8: Cryptography

Module 9: Firewalls

Module 10: Intrusion Detection System

Module 11: Data Backup

Module 12: Virtual Private Network

Module 13: Wireless Network Security

Module 14: Web Security

Module 15: Ethical Hacking and Pen Testing

Module 16: Incident Response

Module 17: Computer Forensics Fundamentals

Module 18: Digital Evidence

Module 19: Understanding File Systems

Module 20: Windows Forensics

Module 21: Network Forensics and Investigating Network Traffic

Module 22: Steganography

Module 23: Analyzing Logs

Module 24: E-mail Crime and Computer Forensics

Module 25: Writing Investigative Report