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Course Details
The course covers a wide range of topics from common vulnerabilities and tools that are used to exploit, to incident response and handling. Addresses theoretical and practical issues in malicious programs and scripts, stegonagraphy, worms and different types of network exploits and attacks.
Due to the current COVID situation, this course will run ONLINE for the Spring/Summer term. *Please note: courses in Spring/Summer will still have ‘time’ / ‘location’ indicated on the course pages (system can’t change these). Unless the courses are cancelled or indicated otherwise by the PA or instructors, most will plan to run ONLINE this term. There is no textbook required and the instructor will distribute the course material in class. Students who have been accepted into a Forensics program where this course is a part of the matrix may register without any further approvals. Students who are not currently accepted in a Forensics program or, if this course is NOT part of your program matrix, please contact the Program Assistants for departmental approval at BCIT_Forensics@bcit.ca. For information on Forensic programs and courses, please visit: https://www.bcit.ca/cas/forensics.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Plan and use exploit code and hacker tools for the purposes of gaining an understanding of network vulnerabilities.
Plan and use monitoring and scanning tools to identify system vulnerabilities.
Plan and use security tools to protect information and systems.
Plan and use freely available tools and off-the-shelf hardware to sniff wireless traffic and compromise 802.11 networks.
Plan and use popular frameworks such as Metasploit to penetrate and test systems vulnerabilities.
Plan and use popular frameworks such as Metasploit to penetrate and test systems vulnerabilities.
Effective as of Winter 2018
Related Programs
FSCT 8590 is offered as a part of the following programs:
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