Cybersecurity Techniques and Operations

This course focuses on tools and techniques involved in real-world cyber operations. It provides a
broad range of cybersecurity concepts and essential hands-on training for students who want to
become cybersecurity professionals. Students will learn the basic cybersecurity discipline, underline
the model computing environment, and practice different tools and strategies to perform cyber
attacks and defense operations.
After completing this course, students will be able to

• understand the rules and laws involved in real-world cyber operations,
• understand the basic components of the model computing networks, and take different
  techniques to identify and trace the network traffic if an instruction is detected inside a
  network,
• identify and evaluate the vulnerabilities in the network and implement effective
  countermeasures to protect the network from possible attacks,
• understand how to plan, organize and perform penetration testing on a network,
• understand different cryptographic protocols, tools, and mechanisms used for different
  systems, and exploit their weaknesses accordingly,
• manage data and personal information in a secure manner.

Course Material

The hands-on labs are as follows:

Traffic Tracing through WireShark and TCPdump

301Lab2-compressed

Firewall Configuration with pfSense

Assignment-3-Sword-vs.-Shield-1-1-compressed

Penetration test on Windows

EthicalHacking

Password Cracking

FinalPWordCrack-13