Ethical Hacking Practices

What is this Micro-Credential about

The unique selling point for this micro-credential is to provide practical skills in hacking intervention, protection, recovery, and prevention for organisational networks, applications, and devices in the context of the New Zealand IT industry.

Why study?

The IT industry has a shortage of IT professional staff with the skills required to intervene, protect or prevent hacking incidences or require hacking services. As organisations continue to rely on digital networks, applications, and devices that are potentially exposed to threats or unintentional disruptions requiring hacking interventions.

Learning Experience

• Four Synchronous group webinars support learning, reinforce content, provide industry updates, and prepare learners for the assessment project.
• Six asynchronous modules featuring practice activities, discussions, and reflection to track competency, engagement, and progression.
• iLab activities – a secure online space for practicing and testing practices and tools for ethical hacking application.
• One summative assessment

Prerequisites

• Basic IT and information security/network security knowledge equivalent to level 5 or above or related work experience.
• Preferably those with Bachelor degree/diploma in IT.
• Able to perform basic IT tasks such as installing software, using operating systems like Windows or Linux, creating a basic network, and supporting its day-to-day routine functions

Value to the learner

Able to provide entry-level operations support to protect an organisation’s, network, applications, and devices by creating preventive hacking measures to reduce cyber threats or resolutions approaches to ethically hack in certain situations for an organisation within the NZ IT industry.

Value to the market

An ethical hacker employee will be able to protect the organisations digital assets and services against cyber threats of a hacking nature and provide internal support by ethically hacking within.