Cyber Security (Advanced)

Course Overview

This is an advanced level course on cyber security and risk management.

Pre-requisite: Cyber security & risk management (foundational course)

Advanced Level course  (32  hours)  will provide hands-on practice, with lab exercises, assignments, and project work. Students will have access to MIIM’s cyber security lab hosted in the AWS cloud. The Labs will supplement the lectures to provide a unique learning experience.

The course will prepare students to Certification in Ethical Hacking (CEH).

Topics covered:

1. Introduction to Ethical Hacking  (1 hour)
2. Hacking techniques, Social Engineering  (2 hours)
3. System Hacking (2 hours)
4. Trojans, Backdoors, Viruses, Worms, Sniffers  (2 hours)
5. Denial of Service Attacks  (2 hours)
6. Web Servers & Web Applications  & Secure Coding (3 hours)
7. Wireless Networks (2 hours)
8. IDS, Firewalls, Honeypots   (2 hours)
9. Buffer Overflows  –Secure Coding II (2 hours)
10. Cryptography  (3 hours)
11. Network Penetration Testing  (3 hours)

Class & Lab exercises (24 hours)

Ethical Hacking,  Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Operating System scans, Network penetration testing, application vulnerability scans,  secure coding.  Various ethical hacking tools will be used as part of this course.

Assignments and project work  (8 hours)  (illustrative, not exhaustive)
1. Analysis of a cyber security incident
2. Underground hacker economy
3. Online financial frauds
4. Social media traps
5. End-User Security
6. Risk and Threat Analysis for an application or device

Intended students/participants

Students of MBA (Systems), MCA, B.Tech, M.Tech

Must have completed the Foundational Course (28 hours)