ECSA Certification Preparation: The CEH v9 Next Step

The EC-Council’s ECSA certificate validates information security professionals’ understanding of and experience with conducting realistic penetration tests. Students will learn advanced knowledge and experience about available methodsologies, tools and techniques that are required to perform comprehensive penetration tests for information security. Students gain practical experience with the Licensed Penetration Tester in order to carry out intensive assessments required to effectively identify and reduce risks to infrastructure security. Students not only learn to identify Information Security problems in this course, but also how to avoid them and eliminate them with full coverage of analysis and network security testing methods and tools. This course prepares students for the EC-Council Certified Security Analyst 412-79 exam.

The curriculum for the ECSA Training Course begins by discussing the Need for Security Analysis and Penetration Testing Methodologies then the Customer and Legal Agreements along with the Engagement Rules. Diving right into practice, we talk about Penetration Testing Planning and Scheduling, Pre-Penetration Testing Steps and Information Gathering. Once the student has learned how to prepare, we cover a range of types of penetration testing such as: External Penetration Testing, Internal Network Penetration Testing, Firewall Penetration Testing, IDS Testing, Password Cracking Penetration Testing, Social Engineering Penetration Testing, and many more ending – Finally – with Mobile Device Penetration Testing and Cloud Penetration Testing Methodology. After this interactive and comprehensive course,