ISMG 6860 - Ethical Hacking Concepts and Methodologies

From a technical perspective, organizations need to know how hackers work so that they can build their security around it and take preemptive measures against future attacks. The goal of the ethical hacking is to understand current exploits, and assess weaknesses and vulnerabilities of various organizational information systems by attacking them within legal limits. This course is designed to provide students an insight of current hacking tools and techniques used by hackers and security professionals to break into any computer systems. Throughout the course, students will engage in offensive and defensive hands-on exercises stressing ethical hacking and penetration testing that will be conducted in a vendor-neutral virtual environment. Topics include security threats and attack vectors, footprinting and reconnaissance, network scanning and enumeration techniques, vulnerability assessment, system hacking, malware threat analysis, social engineering, attack and defense strategies in emerging technologies. Restrictions: Restricted to graduate majors and NDGR majors with a sub-plan of NBA within the Business School, graduate majors within the College of Engineering, Design and Computing, PHCS PhD majors and PhD majors. Max hours: 3 Credits. Semester Hours: 3 to 3