Advanced Networking

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 materials follows an ethical hacking steps such as footprinting, 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 : CS213 – Data Communications and Networks