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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
January 26

1 - Introduction

Nothing is due

Slides Recording
February 2

2 - Cryptography & Incident Response

Lab 1 Quiz 1

Slides Recording
February 9

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

Lab 2 Quiz 2

Slides Recording
February 16

Holiday (President’s Day)

February 23

4 - Threat Modeling, OSINT, OWASP

Lab 3 Quiz 3

Slides Recording
March 1

5 - Cloud Security, LLM Security

Lab 4 Quiz 4

Slides Recording
March 8

6 - Security Careers and Presentations

Lab 5, Quiz 5

Slides Recording

Final Presentations and Guest Lecture


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