Centennial College - Course Details

Ethical Hacking and Defense

Course Code	CBER-721
Lecture hours per week	2
Lab hours per week	2
Course Availability	Open
Description	In this course, different attackers’ tactics, strategies, and approaches will be discussed. The Ethical Hacking and Defense course presents a variety of approaches such as footprinting, scanning, enumeration, system hacking, penetration testing, malware detection, sniffing, and social engineering for finding existing vulnerabilities and discovering intrusions in the network. It also discusses the latest known attack vectors. This course also provides information on the tools which are required to defend against attackers. This course examines and reviews various types of hacking tools and ways to harden the system or application against the attacks. It builds upon the theoretical and practical concepts of Computer and Network Security. The course will start with background topics covering the development of network defense and countermeasures standards and techniques and the impact of hacking on businesses and enterprises. It provides students with a solid foundation of analytical skills and theoretical and practical knowledge in the area of advanced network security. This course explores the changing nature and challenge of hacking and hacker culture in Canada and globally and examines the impact these changes have had over time on the changing role, nature and challenges faced by network defense and security professionals today. It then moves to the practical and analytical aspects of network defense and students learn how to analyze network traffic signature and how to protect a network using cryptography etc. Students will also conduct a research on the emerging hacking trends and threats and the corresponding network defense and countermeasures technologies and methodologies. This course will give students an in-depth knowledge of ethical hacking and penetration testing. It focuses on vulnerability assessment of systems and network devices, exploitation of these vulnerabilities, penetration and ethical hacking. Students will also become well versed in TCP/IP protocols, web servers and applications and wireless networks. Students will learn techniques to scan and exploit vulnerabilities. The course will enable students to apply the knowledge and skills obtained to study further concepts in Information Security.