CIS 264 — Ethical Cybersecurity Hacking
This course immerses IT Professionals in hands-on intensive environments, providing in-depth knowledge and experience with current essential security systems. Provides understanding of perimeter defenses and leads to scanning and attacking networks; no real networks are harmed. Students learn how intruders escalate privileges and the steps to be taken to secure a system. Also covers Intrusion Detection, Policy Creation, Social Engineering, DDoS Attacks, Buffer Overflows, and Virtual Creation. Focus includes legal and regulatory requirements, ethical issues, basic methodology and technical tools used for ethical hacking and penetration tests. Students establish a pre-test agreement with the enterprise, discover and exploit vulnerabilities, participate as a member of a pen test team and prepare a penetration test report. (CSU)
Part of
- Cyber Security Specialist Certificate of Specialization
- Networking, Security and System Administration - Enterprise Networking Associate in Science and Certificate of Achievement
- Networking, Security and System Administration - Enterprise System Administration Associate in Science and Certificate of Achievement
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- Computer and Information Science (CIS)