Online Course in Ethical Hacking 7,5 hp
In this course, students learn ethical hacking in order audit and improve the cybersecurity of computer networks. At the start of the course, students are confronted with a (rigged) corporate network environment. The objective is to penetrate the network and exfiltrate valuable information. This will require exploiting vulnerabilities, installing trojans, dumping hashes, cracking passwords, breaching firewalls, spoofing servers, cracking wifi networks, and more.

KTH Contract teaching – Uppdragsutbildning
Dates: 4 September – 8 December 2023
Expected workload: 15h/week.
Cost: 20 000 SEK. Your employer will be charged for the course.
Credits: 7,5 credits are awarded in the LADOK system.
Where: Student-controlled schedule. No physical meetings, you can enjoy the course wherever in the world.
Note: Contract teaching is only available through your employer. The couse is not available to private persons.
Register here by 31 July
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course you should be able to:
- perform reconnaissance, identifying and selecting targets for attack, e.g. by means of network scanning
- identify vulnerabilities in network equipment and applications
- customize exploits for software vulnerabilities
- deploy and execute exploits on vulnerable systems,
- install and use remote access trojans for remote system control
- identify password files and extract passwords
- exfiltrate data
- implement solutions to strengthen the information security of computer networks
- carry out legal and ethical security testing.
Guest Lectures
In addition to the course material available exclusively to students, we also offer a set of guest lectures. In 2022, those were as follows:
Mattias Wåhlén, Threat Intelligence Expert at Truesec
The World of Cybercriminals
September 14, 13:15-15:00
F1 (Alfvénsalen), Lindstedtsvägen 22, KTH Campus
Joakim Grundwall, CTO MSAB
Breaking the security of modern smartphones
September 21, 15:15-17:00
F1 (Alfvénsalen), Lindstedtsvägen 22, KTH Campus
Staff from the Swedish Security Service
Ethical hacking at the Swedish Security Service
September 29, 13:15-15:00
F1 (Alfvénsalen), Lindstedtsvägen 22, KTH Campus
Camilla Lundahl, Head of Cybersecurity & IT security at Avanza
The attacker need one door open, we need to keep 2 Million doors closed
October 5, 15:15-17:00
F1 (Alfvénsalen), Lindstedtsvägen 22, KTH Campus
Prerequisites
As a prerequisite, participants are expected to have basic programming skills. Knowledge about operating systems (Linux in particular) and communication networks is also strongly recommended. No previous experience of information security is required.
Language
All material is in English, but teachers are also fluent in Swedish.
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Contract EP282U (pdf 117 kB)
Questions?
Please contact Pontus Johnson