Security Vulnerability Assessment East

Course details

This subject provides understanding of the threats on the Internet and its applications, and how a cyber-attacker will penetrate network systems and applications. It equips students with the principles and practices of preventing such attacks, discusses these threats such as malicious codes and common application vulnerabilities, website defacing and hacking, illegal access to unauthorised information, distributed denial of services and cyber terrorism. Students will acquire knowledge on assessing the potential threats, various penetration strategies and methods, and effective counter measures. Students will also learn to identify common application vulnerabilities and investigate malicious application behaviour.

Objectives

• Describe ethical hacking concepts;
• Apply network and systems vulnerabilities assessment techniques;
• implement solutions to mitigate threats and vulnerabilities affecting web applications.