COMP 324 - Cybersecurity Risk and Ethical Hacking

Units: 3
Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week
Prerequisite(s): IT 221 or COMP 232
Recommended: COMP 429
An introduction to risk management with modern ethical hacking as a technique for penetration testing, finding security vulnerabilities, incident handling, and system’s security audit processes. Areas of instruction include evolution of ethical hacking; penetration testing for risk assessment; the basics of cryptology for information security; footprinting; vulnerability scanning and exploit; wireless, web, and database attacks; malware and system exploit; traffic analysis; incident response; and defensive technologies and internal controls. In this course, students will learn how to discover vulnerabilities and types of security attacks, how to defend systems, how to respond to attacks, and how to identify and design controls to prevent future attacks.
Graded: Letter Grade