IT 390 Cybersecurity: Attack and Defend

Provides hands-on experience for students to defend computer networks against a variety of cyber attacks 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. Students must achieve a minimum grade of C. Prerequisite: IT 335 with a grade of C or higher. (3)