Hackershala Certified Security Professional – 0x01

Prerequisites:

• Basic understanding of computers
• Basic understanding of internet

Time Duration:

• It usually takes around 24 days before you can take the final challenge and earn the HCSP 0x01 certificate !

Future of HCSP – 0x01

• 3.5 LPA (Highest salary offered)
• 5,000+ Jobs (Source: LinkedIn Jobs)

Lab access and examination:

• 12 days lab access
• You can attempt the exam only after completing the lab access time.
• Final challenge should be attempted within 40 days of course purchase

Course Module

• Module 01 – Introduction to Cyber Security
  • Defining what is hacking and how it is different from ethical hacking.
  • Case Studies of Hacking Incidents which led to massive destruction and how could it have been prevented.
  • What are the types of Hacker?
  • Generic Terms of Information security industry.
  • Hacking Phases
• Module 02 – Digital footprinting and Reconnaissance
  • What is Reconnaissance? What are the different types of Recon methods?
  • How to build own recon methodology?
  • How to use google dorking to gain useful information which can be leveraged while exploitation.
  • Hands-on Tasks for performing recon on live targets.
  • Visiting Hacker’s Favourite Search Engine.
  • Discussion on how Internet Never Forgets
  • Securing Your Digital Identity.
• Module 03 – Open Source Intelligence
  • What is Open Source Intelligence
  • Different techniques to perform OSINT
  • Performing OSINT on live targets & In house CTF Labs
• Module 04 – Dark web and Dark net, Beng Anonymous
  • What is Dark Web, Deep Web and Dark Net?
  • How do we work on these portals while securing our own identities.
  • Understanding of TOR protocol.
  • How to make fake identity and use that identity to surf over Internet.
  • Hosting your own Web Site on Dark Web.
  • How to own a custom subdomain for Dark Web Hosted Site.
• Module 05 – Scanning and Enumeration
  • What is Scanning?
  • Different Methods to scan your target system.
  • How to make a network map.
  • Necessary Networking Concepts
  • What is Enumeration?
  • Different tools & Techniques to perform enumeration.
  • Overview of Vulnerability of subdomain takeover.
  • Hands-On Lab to apply learnt techniques.
• Module 06 – Firewall, IDS and IPS, Honeypot
  • What is Firewall? Understand its working.
  • What is IDS? Understand its working.
  • What is IPS? Understand its working.
  • What are Honeypots? Understand its working.
  • How to bypass these security controls and perform scanning on target systems.
• Module 07 – DoS and DDoS Attack
  • What is Dos attack?
  • What is DDOS attack?
  • What is the difference b/w the two?
  • How a malicious hackers performs these attack.
• Module 08 – System hacking and Password Cracking
  • Understanding what are the different types of users and overview of generic system vulnerabilities.
  • How to gain access to the system (Getting a Shell)?
  • How to escalate privileged using some common system vulnerabilities.
  • Discuss various techniques to crack passwords.
  • Hands-On lab for performing System hacking & Password Cracking.
• Module 09 – Cryptography and Crypto-Money
  • What is Cryptography?
  • What is Crypto-Money?
  • How Cryptography has secured digital Identity.
  • How Cryptography is implemented in technology these days.
  • How to analyse the cryptographic string and decipher it.
  • Hand-On Lab on Cryptography.
• Module 10 – Wireless Hacking Overview
  • What is Wireless technology and their bifurcations?
  • Different Wireless Technology used these days.
  • Common Vulnerabilities with wireless technology.
  • Hands-On lab on wireless hacking.
• Module 11 – Web Server and Web Application hacking
  • Perform recon on web targets.
  • Perform Vulnerability Assessment.
  • Using Web Debugger
  • Setting Up Burp Suite
  • Exploit SQL injection with customized payloads
  • Exploit Cross Site Scripting with customized payloads.
• Module 12 – Windows Exploitation
  • Apply System Hacking techniques on hacking a windows machine
  • Hands-On lab
• Module 13 – Linux Exploitation
  • Apply System Hacking techniques on hacking a Linux machine
  • Hands-On lab
• Module 14 – Hacking Persistence and Backdoor Implementation
  • What is persistence?
  • How a hacker makes persistence?
  • Different Methodology of Persistence.
  • What is a Backdoor?
  • How can we make our own backdoor and maintain persistence.
• Module 15 – Malware and APT
  • What is a malware
  • Different types of malware
  • How Malware Engineering is done
  • Tools & Techniques to build malware.
  • Case Studies of Malware
  • What is an APT?
  • Different APT techniques
  • Discussion on different APT teams across the globe
  • Case Studies of APT.
• Module 16 – Clearing your Identity
  • What is Logs?
  • What traces a hacker leaves behind and how a hacker can be caught
  • How to clear our identity from the exploited system.
• Module 17 – Reverse Engineering and Buffer overflow
  • What is difference b/w Engineering and Reverse Engineering
  • Reversing a Mobile Applications with Hands-On Lab.
  • Different techniques used to reverse engineer.
  • What is buffer overflow?
  • How it can be leveraged to exploit a target system (Overview).
• Module 18 – IoT and Cloud Computing overview
  • What is an IoT Device
  • Working Mechanism of IoT Device
  • Reversing of an IoT device firmware (Hand-on Lab)
  • What is Cloud computing?
  • Why there is a boom in cloud computing space
  • Different attack vectors of cloud.