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Oct 23, 2026
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CNET 2230 - Ethical Hacking
Credits: 3
Catalog Description
This class demonstrates the ethical use of various “white hat” cyber penetration testing tools and techniques consistent with ethical hacking training. Network tools and techniques take place in an enclosed “sandbox” environment. Students are exposed to various computer hacking skills and analyze various protective measures and their effectiveness. Students will learn about the entire penetration testing process including planning, reconnaissance, scanning, exploitation, post-exploitation, and result reporting. The course will provide the fundamental information associated with each of the methods employed and insecurities identified. In all cases, remedial techniques will be explored. Students will develop an understanding of current cybersecurity issues and ways that user, administrator, and programmer errors can lead to exploitable insecurities.
Prerequisite(s) (must have a grade of C or better): CNET 2110
Recommended Skills, Abilities, or Coursework: General computer proficiency
Additional fee to student: No
Learner Outcomes
- Critically analyze various recon techniques and their effectiveness.
- Demonstrate the use of tools to escalate privileges on a remote device.
- Demonstrate password cracking using different tools.
- Compare and contrast various techniques for launching server attacks.
- Demonstrate various web based attacks.
- Compare and contrast various wireless attacks.
- Apply ethical theories to a cyber related issue.
- Compare and contrast “white hat hacking” versus “black hat hacking” versus “grey hat hacking”.
- Differentiate various ethical hacking issues such as hacking, cyber crime, hactivism and cyber terrorism.
Major Areas of Course Content
- Social Engineering
- Reconnaissance
- Scanning tools
- Firewalls, routers and LAN segments
- Metasploit and exploitation framework
- Web exploitation
- Wireless exploitation
- Mobile device exploitation
- Constructing a root kit
Credit for Prior Learning Options
No credit for prior learning option is available for this course.
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