Ethical or white-hat hacking uses commonly available tools and techniques to better protect your system against unauthorized access, whether you're running a small home network or you're an enterprise network administrator. (Offered through a partnership between the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Education To Go.)

Snapshot

Format: Online

Hours: 24

Credits: 2.4 CEUs

Cost: $159

You'll gain an understanding of the complex method of electronic breaking and entering. You'll learn the terms and programming behind the interaction between hardware and software when communicating through a network. You'll follow packets of data from one point to another through an entire network, and find out where the flaws exist for data loss and security breaches. You'll discover the role of the seven layers of the OSI model, and the dependencies of hardware and software interaction through packet transmission. And you'll find out how private data can quickly become public knowledge.

Hackers are costing businesses around the globe several billions of dollars every year. Don't become part of that sad statistic. Sooner or later, you know that somebody is going to try and break into your network. Why not learn how hackers think so you can harden your defenses against them?

Course Information

Course Number: 

0435

Course Date Info: 

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Course Format: 
Online
Course Fee(s): 

$159