INSY-56600 Ethical Hacking

This course provides the student with theory and experience associated with ethical hacking - the practice of using the same skills employed by hackers with malicious intent to improve organizational information security. The successful protection of digital assets of an organization requires solid understanding of such techniques used by hackers to be better prepared against those kinds of attacks. Ethical hacking also requires performing a risk analysis for the particular organization as well as identifying the data, network and policy vulnerabilities. Firewalls and intrusion detection systems are examined from an ethical hacking perspective with focus on protecting digital assets.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

INSY 50500 and INSY 59400