Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

CYB 405 — Ethical Hacking and Reverse Engineering

CYB department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

describe the concept of ethical hacking, attacks, threats, hackers, measures and countermeasures
differentiate between attacks and threats and examine the ethical hacker strategies and understand their methods
plan reverse engineering of code and network exploits as a method for understanding and development of countermeasures

Course contents

Introduction to ethical hacking, attacks, threats, hackers, measures and countermeasures. Overview of ethical hacker strategies. Focus on how perimeter defences work, how intruders escalate privileges and methods of security systems. Intrusion detection, policy creation, social engineering.

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CYB 405 — Ethical Hacking and Reverse Engineering

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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