IT 4843 - Ethical Hacking for Effective Defense

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: IT 4323 or ECET 3400 or CS 4622
This course focuses on detection of network and system vulnerabilities by taking an attacker-like approach to system, network, and data access. Topics include network attacks and defenses, Operating System and application vulnerabilities, social engineering attacks, and malware. Ethical, legal implications of network attacks are also discussed.