CIS 55 - Hacker Techniques, Exploits, and Incident Handling.
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.
Some additional important links below:
- Merritt College Cybersecurity Path - PDF
- PG&E $10,000 Scholarship
- Microsoft Cybersecurity Grant
- Collegiate Pentest Competition, Western Region Collegiate Defense Competition, NCL
- Preparation for the competitions TryHackMe, HackTheBox
Program details
| Session | Description | Notes | Slides | Recording |
| January 24 | 1 - Introduction |
Quiz 1 |
Slides | Recording |
| January 31 | 2 - Cryptography & Incident Response |
Lab 1 Quiz 2 |
Slides | Recording |
| February 7 | 3 - Pentesting Tools (Nmap, Nessus, Metasploit, SQLMap) |
Lab 2 Quiz 2 |
Slides | Recording |
| February 14 | Holiday (President’s Day) |
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| February 21 | 4 - Threat Modeling, OSINT, OWASP |
Lab 3 Quiz 3 |
Slides | Recording |
| February 28 | 5 - Cloud Security, LLM Security |
Lab 4 Quiz 4 |
Slides | Recording |
| March 7 | 6 - Security Careers and Presentations |
Lab 5, Quiz 5 |
Slides | Recording |
| March 14 | BONUS - Bug Bounty Session |
Slides | Recording |
2025 Final Presentations and Guest Lecture
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