IT 390 Cybersecurity: Attack and Defend

Provides hands-on experience for students to defend computer networks against a variety of cyberattacks including malware, hacking, denial of service attacks, and password cracking. Students use a variety of reconnaissance techniques such as sniffing, scanning, fingerprinting, and war driving to identify vulnerabilities in a variety of systems and networks. In addition, students execute attack and defend scenarios and document their results. Prerequisite: IT 335. (3)