Vulnerability Testing I

Catalog description

This course is the first of a two-part introduction to Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment. This course presents the concepts, tools, and techniques used for penetration testing, vulnerability exploitation, assessment, reporting, and forensics; teaches multiple attack vectors as well as the defensive measures protecting against such attacks; focuses heavily on post-attack forensics allowing for a complete picture of the attack process. The course introduces several open- source tools such as the Metasploit framework, Nmap, Nessus, Wireshark and Kali Linux. This course includes hands-on lab exercises using a virtual computer environment. Prerequisite: Permission of Program Manager