Ethical Hacker

This Ethical Hacking program is designed to empower students for a successful career in the field of cybersecurity. This comprehensive course is tailored to equip individuals with the necessary skills to excel as ethical hackers or penetration testers.  

Throughout the program, students will acquire expertise in identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities and weaknesses across diverse systems. They will learn the art of designing and executing effective penetration testing plans while mastering the art of presenting well-structured reports supported by concrete evidence from their project.  

This Ethical Hacking course will be delivered to you in partnership with Udacity, meaning you'll have access to both Udacity's learning and career services as well as RMIT Online's course enablement support through our Learner Success team.

Our Ethical Hacking course is ideal for:

• Aspiring or emerging security professionals looking to develop their technical skills in identifying cyber threats, analysing security vulnerabilities, and conducting legal cyberattack simulations. 
•  Existing IT professionals or security enthusiasts wanting to take steps towards gaining the in-demand skills for roles within cybersecurity operations such as a penetration tester, cyber analyst or ethical hacker.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to: 

• Perform security audits of internal systems, web applications, and information leakage. 
• Identify common security risks and oversights that can allow compromise 
• Produce meaningful reports that detail findings, prioritise risk or criticality, and suggest mitigations  

During this course, you will use your newly acquired Ethical Hacking Skills to complete 2 projects.

In the first project, you'll manage a full-fledged security audit of a fictitious company and in the second you will utilise and implement modern penetration tester and red teamer methodologies on PJBank CISO's virtual operations. 

At the end of the course, you will receive an RMIT credential which can be validated, recognised, and shared on social media platforms.

For Ethical Hacker, students should have experience working with and/or knowledge of the following topics: 

• Basic Linux file structure  
• Networking basics 
• Three-way handshake, encryption and hashing 
• One programming language (Python is preferred) 

Please note that this program uses the Oracle VM VirtualBox hypervisor tool that is incompatible with Apple's new M1 chip computers.