{"id":13879,"date":"2025-06-16T22:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ExecEd\/?post_type=course&p=13879"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:48:34","slug":"johns-hopkins-university-certificate-program-introduction-to-ethical-hacking","status":"publish","type":"course","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/ExecEd\/course\/johns-hopkins-university-certificate-program-introduction-to-ethical-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Ethical Hacking Certificate Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Introduction to Ethical Hacking Certificate Program<\/h1>\n\n\n

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Learn to think like a hacker\u2014so you can defend like a pro.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Instructor: Jason Crossland<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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<\/path><\/svg><\/span>Curriculum designed and delivered by Johns Hopkins faculty<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johns Hopkins Engineering\u2019s fully online Introduction to Ethical Hacking Certificate plunges you into the world of cybersecurity. Designed for hands-on problem solvers<\/strong>, this dynamic program teaches you how to uncover vulnerabilities, threats, and potential risks before attackers do\u2014and how to protect systems with confidence. 

Guided by leading cybersecurity experts from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, one of the nation\u2019s premier centers for cyber operations, you\u2019ll gain real-world insight into the tactics, tools, and techniques used by today\u2019s adversaries. 
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Across three expertly crafted courses\u2014designed and taught by senior APL engineer Jason Crossland and fellow Johns Hopkins faculty<\/strong>\u2014you\u2019ll study the entire offensive cyber life cycle and associated phases of operations, as well as real-world tactics, techniques, and procedures used by advanced persistent threats (APT\u2019s) and cyber actors.  You\u2019ll also learn approaches to detect attacks and implement mitigation solutions and defense-in-depth strategies that reduce the overall attack surface, risk-to-system and risk-to-mission outcomes.  Every assignment mirrors real cyber-attack events, so the reports you build roll straight into information system doctrine. 

Your capstone drops you into Cyber Fin, a Fortune-500 firm reeling from ten different attacks resulting in the adversary maintaining persistence and establishing command and control (C2) of the company\u2019s networks, assets, data and systems.  As the ethical hacker, you review data artifacts and findings to present prioritized mitigation strategies to ISSO and CIO\u2019s in the form of an executive summary\/penetration test report. 

Completing the program earns you a Johns Hopkins Certificate of Achievement and seven CEUs, plus a portfolio that closes the experience gap<\/strong> and propels you toward roles such as SOC analyst, penetration tester, certified ethical hacker, vulnerability scanner, security engineer, or threat hunter\u2014while offering employers immediate gains in dwell-time reduction and alert efficiency. 

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