IST61050c - Defensive Tools for Information System Security Management

(3 units)

This course provides hands-on experience with security defensive tools and methodology. The application of defensive security best-practices can significantly reduce key exploits and risks. By leveraging the practical knowledge acquired from this course, students will build on the remediation strategies for stopping active offensive attacks. Students will conduct vulnerability assessments, how to thwart the exploitation of those vulnerabilities, and how to identify and secure against suspicious patterns of malicious user behavior.