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Merritt College Hacker Techniques


Merritt College Hacker Techniques

Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling CIS 55.

This is the second course in the infrastructure security major and it will expose students to the major concepts of vulnerability management, exploits, types of malware, and incident response. Class will use a combination of lectures, required reading, essays, and hands-on labs to teach the course.



Program details

SessionDescriptionNotesSlidesRecording
October 27

1 - Introduction

Nothing is due

Slides Recording
November 3

2 - Cryptography & Incident Response

Lab 1 Quiz 1

Slides Recording
November 17

3 - Pentesting Tools (Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit, SQLMap)

Lab 2 Quiz 2

Slides Recording
December 1

4 - Threat Modeling, OSINT, OWASP

Lab 3 Quiz 3

Slides Recording
December 8

5 - Cloud Security, LLM Security

Lab 4 Quiz 4

Slides Recording
December 15

6 - Security Careers and Presentations

Lab 5, Quiz 5

Slides Recording



Last Updated: 2023-03-24 23:06:20 +0000