Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Current topics in programming languages depending on faculty and student interest.

COURSE DETAILS:

This course is cross-listed with CMPT 980 G100

Simulating real attacks on software systems to assess the risk associated with potential security breaches to provide students with hands-on experience necessary for a successful career path in the cybersecurity field. Students are trained as penetration testers to learn how to discover vulnerabilities that could be used by attackers to gain access to a system, exploit vulnerabilities, and to determine what attackers might gain after a successful vulnerability exploitation. The course teaches students how to assess web application security focusing on browser attacks, web attacks targeting users, web attacks using user or website data. Students will learn about and develop an understanding of cloud security architecture and security design principles of cloud computing.

Topics

• Cyber threat intelligence
• Security assessment via penetration testing
• Web applications security
• Cloud computing security

Grading

Materials

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