• Classroom
  • Online, Instructor-Led
Course Description

This course examines network security testing, including testing countermeasures against malware threats; denial of service (DOS) and distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks; email; Web; and Wireless using a layered approach requiring design, implementation, and testing of attack countermeasures.

Learning Objectives

  1. Given the description of an established organization and its fully deployed information systems, examine how to leverage the freely available tool sets to build a test environment to evaluate the strength of its security infrastructure.
  2. Given the layout of an organization’s networks and its hardware and software components, evaluate where the networks are most vulnerable.
  3. Given the description of an established organization and its data infrastructure, perform tests to evaluate the vulnerabilities of the infrastructure and develop mitigation strategies to lower/eliminate risks to an acceptable level.
  4. Given the description of an established organization and its data infrastructure, assess the vulnerabilities as it relates its gateway to the Internet.
  5. Given the description of an established organization and its data infrastructure, investigate all risks associated with its data assets.
  6. Given the description of an established organization and its data infrastructure, develop continuous process improvements to counter-attack new tools and strategies that allow hackers to penetrate an organization data infrastructure.
  7. Given the description of an established organization and its infrastructure, explain how you would execute a pen test.
  8. Given the description of an established organization and its resources, evaluate the ethical and legal implications of performing white hat activities.

Framework Connections