ADVANCED NETWORKING (3 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to: explain and apply principles of ethical hacking; Define and analyse the vulnerabilities in a networking problem; Apply current techniques, skills, and tools to penetrate a system; Apply design and development principles in the network security; Design, develop and evaluate a network to meet its security requirement.

Topics:

This course prepares student to perform offensive security for the purpose of penetration testing. It introduces hacking tools, techniques, and the theory behind how the tools are used and where they work. The material follows ethical hacking steps such as foot printing, enumeration, system hacking, escalating privilege, and covering tracks. Areas of instruction include setting up a lab to act as a victim, understanding vulnerabilities of operating systems, using various tools used by hackers to access unauthorized information. The course includes hands-on lab on attacking and defending the systems and network.
Prerequisite: – Computer Networks