• Absolute beginners or career-changers who want a structured entry into ethical hacking and cybersecurity.
• Junior security analysts, SOC trainees, help-desk technicians seeking to move toward offensive/defensive roles.
• Students and professionals who want a short, practical program (no prior IT/cyber experience required).

None required — basic computer literacy helps. EHE is designed so newcomers can follow along and build practical skills.

• Describe key information-security concepts and the ethical/legal boundaries of hacking.
• Conduct basic reconnaissance, scanning, and enumeration against lab targets.
  
• Demonstrate common password attack and mitigation techniques.
  
• Identify and test common web, wireless, mobile, and IoT vulnerabilities at a fundamental level.
  
• Understand cloud security risk patterns and common misconfigurations to watch for.
  
• Apply a simple penetration-testing methodology and document findings in a basic report or CTF submission.

security principles, CIA triad, threat landscape.

hacking phases, legal/ethical considerations, Kali/Tooling overview.

common vulnerability types, exploit taxonomy, CVE basics.

cracking techniques, password policies, mitigations.

phishing, pretexting, human attack vectors and defenses.

scanning, enumeration, sniffing, basic network exploitation and controls.

common web vulnerabilities (SQLi, XSS, logic flaws) and basic testing workflows.

Wi-Fi security weaknesses, evil-twin, WPA/WPA2 concepts.

mobile threat vectors, app risks, secure configuration.

IoT/OT threat surfaces, device vulnerabilities and mitigation approaches.

cloud misconfigurations, shared responsibility, basic cloud pentest considerations.

basic pentest process, reporting, CTF capstone labs to apply learned skills.