EC-Council Certified Security Specialist (ECSS)

Objectives

• 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