Have you ever wondered how companies and businesses protect themselves against cyber threats?

Ethical Hacking is an emerging field that favours the practical application of skills to penetrate secure systems to demonstrate vulnerability so that steps can be taken to mitigate risk. Students will develop an understanding of modern techniques that can be employed to evaluate the security of implemented systems, such as networks, servers, and end user devices.

Students will apply the skills they learn in this course to ethical hacking challenges in digital forensics, cryptography, stenography, incident response and exploiting known vulnerabilities. Students will be given numerous opportunities to work collaboratively as they develop their team building and communication skills by working together to solve problems and create solutions.

Having attempted and learnt from these challenges, students will be invited to participate in external Capture the Flag (CTF) events. CTF events allow ethical hackers to compete head-to-head in a competitive environment to capture as many flags as possible, by ethically hacking their way through systems that have been set up for the challenge.