CYSE 301

Cybersecurity Techniques and Operations

Throughout this course, I learned and focused on tools and techniques used in the real world cyber operations. This course taught me a wide aray of hands on concepts that trains students on skills they will need to obtain/ use to become cyber security professionals. Students used different computing environments or VMs to better understand the technology used.

  • Gain an understanding of the concepts and any major constructs of the programming language C ,
  • Proficient the programming skills of the programming language C,
  • Able to analyze the C command source code to infer and underand the functionality of a given C Function, C segnment, C program etc,
  • utilized necessary techniques and skills to write a C program in various cybersecurity operations such as a network protocol stack,
  • Monitor and analyze network traffic. Able to not only Identify but trace the traffic when intrusion is detected on a network,
  • Analyze the vulnerabilities in a wireless communication network,
  • Manage data and personal information in a secure manner.

The hands-on labs are as follows:

  1. Traffic tracing through Wireshark and TCPdump
  2. Firewall configuration with pfSense