Networking and Cyber Threats

Catalog description

This course enables students to develop broad technical competencies of the current and future technology applications associated with networking, cyber security, databases and mobility. It supports cyber intelligence courses which involve information gathering and analysis of open source information about cyber threats and adversaries to support managerial decision making. It provides networking foundation for understanding the internetwork environment and functioning as part of a cyber security team. Using lab-based exercises and case studies, the course emphasizes internetworking, security vulnerabilities, ethical cyber security issues and the hacker's lifecycle including major components: reconnaissance, scanning and probing, exploitation and post-exploitation.