Ethical Hacking

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This course focuses on vulnerability assessment through ethical hacking in systems, processes, and the technologies associated with cyberspace domain. Students will examine, practice, and use hacking tools and techniques used in the industry to protect cyberspace infrastructure (networks, applications, data, users, and services). Key topics include penetration testing, attack vectors, intrusion detection, honey pots, cryptography, steganography, user rights, privileges, security baseline analyzers, hardware/BIOS security, operational security, malware detection and analysis, enumeration, password cracking, wireless hacking, session hijacking, SQL injection, and Linux hacking. This course also prepares student for EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker certification exam. Use of Kali tools is recommended. Prerequisite(s): ITS 310 and Senior Standing Lecture/Lab Lecture