Cybersecurity Ethics and Penetration Testing

Catalog description

This course will first study ethics as it relates to cybersecurity by considering specific situations where ethical dilemmas arise as well as the techniques and frameworks used to attack and gain access to a system by exploiting vulnerabilities so that a client knows of potential weaknesses in their system, known as “ethical hacking”. Topics include ethics and cybercrime, cybersecurity and social responsibilities, ethical dilemmas in cybersecurity, impact of cybersecurity practices in society, penetration testing methodologies, vulnerability scanning, attack surface discovery, attack vectors attack frameworks, exploitation and post-exploitation techniques, and ethical usage of penetration testing.