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Aug 14, 2024
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2023-2024 Yavapai College Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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CNT 275 - Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment Description: Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment of computer networks. Learn to set up a cybersecurity lab for practicing information gathering and identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities. Ethical considerations, careers in ethical hacking, frameworks, and methodologies are examined.
Prerequisites: CNT 135 and CNT 190
Credits: 3 Lecture: 2 Lab: 3
Course Content:
- Ethical considerations of penetration testing
- Lab setup
- Methodologies and frameworks
- Information gathering
- Vulnerability identification and exploitation
- Attacks: families, discovery, and vectors
- Careers in ethical hacking
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the importance of ethics in penetration testing and discuss relevant laws. (1)
- Configure a penetration testing and vulnerability assessment test lab. (2)
- Describe the major methodologies for conducting a penetration test. (3)
- Perform active and passive information gathering. (4)
- Identify vulnerabilities and use common tools to exploit them. (5)
- Describe families of attacks, attack surfaces, and attack vectors. (6)
- Discuss relevant certifications and careers in ethical hacking. (7)
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