This course is designed for students to learn advanced knowledge, skills and abilities to plan and conduct authorized ethical hacking and penetration testing for the purpose of identifying, mitigating and evaluating security vulnerabilities. Students will learn to apply and assess the methods, techniques, and tools for reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning and analysis, and exploitations of application and network vulnerabilities. Students will also evaluate and research on the key issues of penetration testing, cyber defense solutions and compare innovative methods for network protection and cyber defense. Graduate students are expected to demonstrate in-depth research in course work.

Prerequisites: INFS6490 3 Credits