This course explores the foundational concepts, methods and techniques in preparing and conducting penetration tests. Throughout the course you will be introduced to various tools as well as unravel complex methods for exploiting client-side, service side and privilege escalation attacks. Most importantly, you will learn how to construct a final report outlining discovered vulnerabilities, make suggested recommendations to remediate and/or mitigate those vulnerabilities. You will also learn how to describe the findings in a way that non-technical personnel understand the ramifications of these vulnerabilities in a business sense. Students in this course will conduct a final exercise penetration testing networks created in the IAE-680 course. This course prepares students for the EC Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification. Prerequisite: IAE 685 and CS-620 or waiver. (3)