By Andy McCue, 4 March 2004 16:20
NEWS The organisers of the UK's first 'ethical' hacking training course claim strict screening processes will prevent any aspiring 'black hat' or malicious hackers from using it to improve their skills for hacking corporate networks.
The intensive five-day course is instead aimed squarely at helping IT staff better secure their own networks by teaching them the tools and methods that hackers use against them.
The EC-Council-recognised Certified Ethical Hacker course is being run by the Training Camp from April and will teach IT professionals how to scan their own networks for vulnerabilities and then attack them using the software tools and social engineering employed by the hacker community.
Apart from having a spare few thousand quid to get on the course, students must also have at least two years of IT security experience, a working knowledge of TCP/IP and familiarity with both the Windows and Linux environment.
Robert Chapman, co-founder of the Training Camp, said there has been a huge amount of interest, with about 30 queries a day about the course.
"We can take a competent network administrator and show him the type of tool that people who try to attack him use," he said. "It means they can approach their own network to find where vulnerabilities are. It is what hackers actually do that you need to know."
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1. anonymous
Fist UK Hacking course? Get your facts right! ISS have been running Ethical Hacking courses in the UK for several years now. I went on one two years ago!
2. Warren Searle
ISS (Internet Security Systems)have been running Ethical Hacking Courses in the UK for at least the last three years. They are an invaluable tool for Security Administrators in getting a "Hackers Eye View" into their Network. To look at things from a hackers perspective, is surely the most sensible approach to take when attempting to secure systems against attack.
3. Andrew Rice
Hacking training courses have been available in the UK for years. The Check scheme is just one example and has been going for at least three years.
It is good to see someone offering basic training, however the claim to be first is wrong!
4. Ercan Ozcelik
Internet Security Systems (ISS) have been running "Ethical Hacking" courses for years so its not new. They have recently ousourced their training to a company called NetConnect, and have renamed their course to "Network Intrusion & Penetration Techniques (formerly known as ’Ethical Hacking’)".
I nearly went on the course a couple of years ago as it looked quite interesting, and was taught by ex-hackers. Check their website out at: -
http://www.netconnect.co.uk/default.asp?area=15488&page=0&type=a
5. anonymous
I went thru EC Council CEH Training and certification in Nov 2003 with an Edinburgh based company.
6. Murdoch Mactaggart
First ethical hacking course? Don't be daft! They've been available in the UK for years, run particularly by ISS but also by others, IBM included I think. I've been to a couple, written about them in 2001 and 2002, and I'm sure they've been around for longer than that. Excellent they were too.
7. Bob McTaggat
You should both get your facts straight before posting. ISS sold their training business to netstore. Although Netstore list an ethical hacking course on their site it is not EC-Coucil's Certified Ethical Hacing (CEH) course. So it would appear that TTC are the first people to offer the CEH which is independently developed and globally recognised.
8. Peter Taylor
Hacking certification has also been available for alot longer from www.7safe.com and it's a UK company !
Details at
http://www.7safe.com/ethical_hacking_course-technical_hands-on.htm
9. Glyn Geoghegan
Hi Bob,
I fail to see how the certification offered by the EC (E-Commerce) Council is any more globally recognised than those established courses and qualifications offered by ISS or valid that the UK CESG CHECK scheme, for example.
It's also not clear in what way the other courses suffer from not having been "independantly developed". As one of the original developers of the ISS offering, I can assure you that it is product and platform independant.
The claim that this is the first UK Ethical Hacking course seems bogus at best.
Regards,
Glyn Geoghegan.
10. Stephen Andrews
A rather unethical approach.... To imply this course has any more validity than any of the courses on offer from other reputable training providers Like ISS in Windor or LEVER in Leeds is rather unscrupulous. For any qualification / certification to have any sort of official status they have to be assessed & approved by the Qualification & Curriculum Authority (QCA). This so called “Certified Ethical Hacking” course has not been certified by anyone other than EC (E-Commerce) Council whom are not an approved Certifying Body. I might as well certify myself.
11. anonymous
Dear Sir,
I would like know more infomation regading the 'hacking' training course , i'm intrested with the followings item:-
1. How much it cost for two people.
2. When and where this course are conducted,
3. People from abroad are allowed?
look foward to here from you soon
regards
JF Sheha
President Office
P.O.Box 9173
Dar-es-Salaam
Tanzania
12. David Cazalet
London based IRM Plc, has been running these courses, designed by Professor Neil Barrett, for the last 5 years. GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT
13. Peter Tisbury
You should be writing about 7Safe's courses - They have been around for longer and have courses written and run by professional penetration testers - not some 'franchise' guided by a curriculum and for anyone to give. Having just completed Hacking Insight: Hands-On 1 and 2 this year, I can tell you from first hand experience that their courses are far better than the others. Lever, for example, have obviously copied the same course outline almost word for word - quite pathetic really.... (perhaps they are reselling 7Safe's course though?)
14. Toby
CEH is definitely a certification which holds good value. I'm in fact waiting for their pen testing program to come up. Their certs are good and globally valid too.
15. anonymous
Re: CEH in previous comment, this is no "certification body", so how can it be classed as certified? Just who are the EC-Council - certainly not a respected professional body. A friend of mine has done the CEH and was less than impressed, not just with the content but also with the fact that the "certification" that she was led to believe is pukka is actually meaningless.
Had she searched on Amazon.com at the reviews of their course ware; e.g. "...just a hotch-potch of descriptions of tools that can be found anywhere on the Net. The English is so anguished as to be scarcely recognizable in places - almost as if it's been translated into Lithuanian by Google, and then back into English again." she may have thought twice.
16. Aaron Pedersen
I have just completed the CSTA & CSTP practical training certifications from 7Safe, accredited by the University of Glamorgan - Excellent quality; I can highly recommend them. I now intend to complete the full Masters-Level Postgraduate Certificate in Penetration Testing & Information Security.
It is great that there are some legitimate, independently accredited courses in existence.