e2 Labs to set up a school for ethical hacking in Hyderabad

Training ethical hacking will be offered with an objective to protect information technology assets of India through the use of education, technology and experience. To be kicked off in June 2003, it will be the first of its kind of an institute in Asia.

Conceived by Qureshey, CEO and co-founder of e2 Labs, the course curriculum is developed this hacking wizard, a 17-year-old hacking sensation, who is a consultant to Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), I-Defense and several other such organisations, and an author of three international best selling books on hacking.

Aimed at information security professionals, auditors, CTOs, CIOs, system administrators, network administrators, students, decision-makers and everybody and anybody who is concerned about the integrity of their network infrastructure and of course not intentional hackers, batches of three kinds of durations (weekly, monthly the three-monthly) courses are designed.

All these courses are full time. The one-week course is designed for who are already in the profession and corporate sponsored executives. The one-month programme is designed for software professionals and college students. And the three-month programme is an advanced and highly comprehensive one.

The course curriculum is designed to teach, providing a structured methodology for detailing the techniques used by hackers, to assess and attack corporate networks. Beginning with an ethical part of whole things, covering legal and HR issues, reasons why one must perform ethical hack, common attack types and vulnerabilities. Over a period the course attempts to highlight information leakage that can take place even within a seemingly secure environment. It thus provides valuable insight into how hackers circumvent and defeat security controls in networked environments, applications and operating systems.

The course offers the comprehensive coverage of the essentials that were determined by the collaborative process: information assurance fundamentals, IP concepts and behaviour, the Internet threat; malicious code, security policies, password management and assessment; encryption and encryption-based applications (VPN, PKI, PGP) and others. In all together a three months'' advanced diploma will have 14 modules. The faculty includes Fadia, Qureshey and other professionals and experts drawn from the industry.