Cybersecurity, Networking and Ethical Hacking for Forensic Applications.

Catalog description

Semester course; 2 lecture and 3 laboratory hours. 3 credits. Concurrent prerequisite: FRSC 525 . Enrollment is restricted to forensic science majors. This course is an introduction to computer network forensics, incident response and penetration testing. Covers cyber security infrastructures, hardware, terminology and methodology. Networking protocols and models will be introduced and examined for vulnerabilities and exploitation vectors. Legal considerations will be discussed. Theoretical and practical aspects of security architectures and ethical hacking will be covered. There is a significant hands-on laboratory component.