CIS 450 - Penetration Testing

5 Credits

Using the major steps of a penetration testing engagement as a framework, students review the technical and business guidelines for pentesting. Students exploit vulnerabilities, and research threat actors while learning defensive techniques and best practices for resilient infrastructure.

Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - CIS
FeesAcademic Technology Fee

Quarters Typically Offered
Winter Evening

Designed to Serve For students admitted to the BAS program in Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics.
Active Date 20260408T14:58:44

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 44 Lab 22
Total Contact Hours 66
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline

Security testing foundation
Laws and relevant regulations
Business Practices and Policies
Common tooling and methodologies for:
1. Information Gathering
2. Scanning
3. Enumeration
4. Exploitation
5. Reporting
Hardening and Testing Systems
Exploits, Payloads, and Vulnerable Configurations
Hardening and Retesting Systems
Reporting to the Client and Management

Student Learning Outcomes
Explain the relevant laws, governance, and compliance regulations concerning penetration testing.

Understand the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by penetration testers and attackers including application, network, and privileged account exploitation.

Research and report on cybersecurity threat actors such as advanced persistent threats.

Effectively test the vulnerabilities of systems and their defense using industry standard tools.

Generate penetration testing reports that explain how penetration testing techniques affect the related security layers to computing systems.