Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Course

ACE ID:

UETC-0002

Organization:

University of Emerging Technologies

Location:

Online

Length:

8 weeks (125 hours total)

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	Introduction to Security
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	Attacks and Exploits

Description

Objective:

Upon the completion of this course, students will learn various concepts such as ethical hacking, cryptography, computer networks & security, application security, idAM (identity & access management), vulnerability analysis, malware threats, sniffing, SQL injection, DoS, session hijacking, and various security practices for businesses with hands-on demonstrations.

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the essential building blocks and basic concepts around cybersecurity, such as Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Security Architecture, and Security Policies
Analyze core topics such as Security Governance, Audit, Compliance, and Security Architecture
Learn various cryptographic techniques, their practical relevance, and their weaknesses
Analyze the weaknesses and concepts around securing networks
Understand known application weaknesses, analyze techniques to attack application weaknesses, and apply various controls/solutions to these vulnerabilities
Identify countermeasures that can be employed to protect sites from different cyber threats
Learn and analyze authorization, authentication, identity, and access management concepts and their benefits to an enterprise
Analyze a system for various vulnerabilities and apply different strategies and methodologies to regain access to the system
Understand the concept of malware, its propagation techniques, types, the concept and types of sniffing, SQL injection and its types, and SQL injection methodologies
Understand DoS and DDoS attacks, session hijacking and its types, working of the intrusion detection system, and the concept of honeypots