Ethical Hacking 101: How to become an Ethical Hacker?

In this webinar, we will be exploring what it means to be an ethical hacker and how it may be the right path for you. The session will walk through the reasons of having EH as a skill set and provide steps and guidance on how to learn, without causing issues. The presentation will discuss training options and methods for practicing your new found skills.

Main points covered:

• Why be an ethical hacker 
• Learning to test systems without breaking the bank 
• Practicing in a controlled and legal environment

Our presenter for this webinar is Kevin Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of Secure Ideas. Kevin has a long history in the IT field including system administration, network architecture and application development. He has been involved in building incident response and forensic teams, architecting security solutions for large enterprises and penetration testing everything from government agencies to Fortune 100 companies. In addition, Kevin is a faculty member at IANSand was an instructor and author for the SANS Institute. 

Kevin has performed a large number of training, briefings, and presentations for both public events and internal training. He is the author of three SANS Institute classes: SEC542: Web Application Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking, SEC642: Advanced Web Application Penetration Testing and SEC571: Mobile Device Security. Kevin has also presented at a large number of conventions, meetings and industry events. Some examples of these are: DerbyCon, ShmooCon, DEFCON, Blackhat, Infragard and ISSA.