Cyber Threat and Vulnerability

This course covers cybersecurity threat and vulnerability assessment and remediation. Students employ threat assessments to select the appropriate controls to secure a network or system. Students use tools for environmental and network reconnaissance and apply techniques to minimize their impact. Topics include reconnaissance analysis and corporate security practices. Students also design and use a vulnerability management program to identify, prioritize, and remediate organizational vulnerabilities.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe the roles and responsibilities of cybersecurity analysts

2. Apply environmental reconnaissance techniques using appropriate tools and processes

3. Analyze the results of a network reconnaissance

4. Given a network-based threat, implement or recommend the appropriate response and countermeasure

5. Explain the purpose of practices used to secure a corporate environment

6. Implement an information security vulnerability management process

7. Configure vulnerability scanning tools and analyze the resulting output

8. Compare and contrast common vulnerabilities found within an organization

9. Describe the major steps associated with a typical penetration testing process

10. Analyze the environment and outline its vulnerability management requirements