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 Course Description

This course is a survey of the ethical and legal issues pertaining to security testing. It demonstrates how to use tools that can be used to gain information about a computer network, how to recognize that the tools are being used, and how to defend a network against those attacks.

By successfully completing this course you will earn 3 units of college credit.

 Course Objectives

• Describe the role of an ethical hacker.
• Test a data communications network for security vulnerabilities.
• Compose a certifiable security report.
• Compare port scanning tools for viability.
• Enumerate Windows OS targets and services.
• Develop custom software applications for security testing purposes.
• Analyze authentication processes for security vulnerabilities.
• Compare symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms.
• Describe intrusion detection and prevention systems and Web-filtering technologies.

 Course Learning Outcomes