Description

Businesses of all sizes need defensive and offensive cybersecurity. Offensive cybersecurity tries to identify and stifle enemy entry points before they have the opportunity to initiate an attack. Offensive includes ethical hacking/penetration testing, vulnerability testing, cloud security testing, and social engineering. Defensive cyber security is the counterpart to the offensive. It is an approach that emphasizes detecting malicious activity, preventing attacks, and responding to cyber incidents in real-time. Defensive includes managed detection and response, remediation support, and dedicated resources.This course provides insights for dealing with security breaches and disasters, compliance, network infrastructure and password management, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing. Students will gain an overview of existing offensive security techniques, including well-known attacks that break confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computing resources and attacks targeting human weaknesses. Students will learn tools and techniques to help improve security in sensible, manageable chunks.

Lecture Hours: 3.00 Lab Hours: 0Total Hours: 3.00