Course Summary

Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking is a course on the skills needed to identify, exploit, and mitigate vulnerabilities in IT systems, published by LinkedIn Online Academy. This comprehensive program covers the fundamentals of ethical hacking, the tools, and techniques used by professionals to simulate cyberattacks and secure systems. Students will explore network reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, exploitation, and post-exploitation techniques, ensuring they understand how attackers operate.Discover essential skills in network and environmental hacking—including sniffing, social engineering, denial of service, session hijacking, IDS, firewalls, and honeypots—as well as detection techniques such as tracing, network scanning, and enumeration. Along the way, learn about web application hacking, cryptography, wireless network hacking, and hacking for mobile platforms, the Internet of Things, and operational technology. With real-world scenarios and labs, this course is ideal for those looking to build a career in cybersecurity. By the end of this course, you will be ready to use powerful attack techniques using vulnerability analysis, system hacking, and malware threats.