Ethical Hacking
CSE-X413.62
Get Certified as an Ethical Hacker
Cybercrime is multi-billion dollar illegal industry worldwide. Hackers penetrate secure systems that compromise national security and sensitive data which is jeopardizing public confidence in corporate, government, and global systems.
Organizations are faced with the challenge of keeping up with the latest hack-prevention strategies to protect their systems from cyber-attacks.
This course provides students with the latest commercial-grade hacking tools and tactics ethical hackers and information security experts require to lawfully hack business systems.
This unique and comprehensive course is attack-based and vendor neutral. Students will learn to think and act like hackers while applying techniques used by hackers. This course explores vulnerabilities in both hardware and software featuring content from diverse platforms and technologies. This course will prepare students for the Ethical Hacking Certification from EC-Council.
Course Highlights:
- Scanning Networks and Enumeration
- Vulnerability Analysis
- System Hacking
- Malware Threats
- Sniffing
- Social Engineering
- Denial-of-Service
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Assess the current security protocols for popular operating environments
- Analyze preventive, corrective and protective countermeasures to safeguard systems against malicious attack
- Identify and crack multiple types of passwords, and effectively counter password attacks
- Apply the terminology, stages, classes, phases and methodologies of ethical hacking
- Describe cryptography & encryption techniques, and private/public key infrastructure
- Discuss common cyber attacks
Lab Fee: Students must purchase a uCertify license in order to access uCertify materials for this course. Student's uCertify licenses are valid for 4 months.
MyCAA Scholarship Qualification
Eligible students may qualify to use My Career Advancement Account Scholarship (MyCAA) for this course. MyCAA is a workforce development program that provides financial assistance to eligible military spouses.
Click here to apply to the MyCAA scholarship.
Course Typically Offered: Online in every quarter.
Prerequisite: A BS in Computer Science, equivalent knowledge and experience, or the course CSE-41363 Cybersecurity Fundamentals.
Next Step: After completing this course, consider earning your certificate as a Certified Ethical Hacker from EC-Council. To continue learning consider taking CSE-41361 Governance of Enterprise IT or CSE-41359 Information Security Management.
Contact: For more information about this course, please email infotech@ucsd.edu.
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This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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No Textbook Required
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Instructor:
Tracy Reed, CISSP, CMMC, CCP, CCA, CCSK, RHCE, ATP
Tracy Reed is a cybersecurity consultant, assessor, architect, and educator with more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Linux, infrastructure, and enterprise technology. His work spans security architecture, regulatory compliance, cloud and container security, operational technology and industrial control systems (OT/ICS), and artificial intelligence security and governance.
Reed is a CMMC Lead Assessor and CyberAB-designated Lead CCA with extensive experience implementing and assessing cybersecurity programs based on CMMC and NIST SP 800-171. His assessment and compliance experience also includes PCI DSS, SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and other security and risk-management frameworks. He is a PCI Professional (PCIP) and has performed PCI security assessments for the US Air Force and helped organizations design and implement compliant environments.
His technical experience includes AWS and cloud security, identity and access management, Kubernetes and container security, network and systems security, and OT/ICS environments. His recent work increasingly focuses on artificial intelligence security, risk, and governance. Reed is an ISO/IEC 42001 AI Management System Lead Auditor and works with organizations on AI governance, third-party AI risk, generative AI and large language model security, and integrating AI governance with existing cybersecurity and compliance programs.
Reed is also an FAA Airline Transport Pilot and draws on aviation's mature approaches to risk management, human factors, and operational discipline in his cybersecurity work.
At UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, Reed brings his practical consulting, assessment, and engineering experience into the classroom, connecting technical implementation with cybersecurity risk, governance, and real-world security requirements.