PCA 593 - Ethical Hacking and Systems Defense

5 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn an ethical hacking methodology with the hands-on application of security tools to better help the student secure one’s systems. Common countermeasures that effectively reduce and mitigate attacks are also introduced. The class helps prepare the student for a professional career in the information and communication technology (ICT) field and the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) certification exam. Topics to be covered include ethical hacking, penetration testing professional certifications, online/print resources, footprinting, scanning, enumeration, exploitation, and post-exploitation.

Course Objectives:

1. utilize various information security tools given different target systems in different environments,

2. discuss how the tools interrelate with each other in an overall penetration testing process,

3. implement countermeasures for various types of attacks,

4. use a common hacking methodology to carry out a penetration test,

5. analyze how penetration testing and ethical hacking fit into a comprehensive enterprise information security program, and

6. demonstrate ethical behavior appropriate to security-related technologies.