CYB 4112 units400 LevelFirst Semester

Systems Vulnerability Assessment and Testing

B.Sc. Cybersecurity, University of Uyo

Advanced vulnerability assessment methodology: systematic identification, testing, and mitigation of risks to a company's infrastructure. Covers penetration testing methodologies, information gathering, password cracking, social engineering, and reporting at a professional level.

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Course outline

  1. 01Definition of systems vulnerability; assessment and testing methods
  2. 02Mitigation of risks and enhancing infrastructure security
  3. 03Penetration testing methodologies, test planning and scheduling
  4. 04Information gathering and password cracking
  5. 05Social engineering, internal and external penetration testing
  6. 06Router penetration testing, security analysis, reporting and documentation
  7. 07Operating systems fingerprinting and remote network mapping
  8. 08Software and operational vulnerabilities and how to overcome them
  9. 09Attack surface analysis, fuzz testing, patch management, and security auditing

Recommended textbooks

  • The Hacker Playbook 3 — Peter Kim

    Advanced red team operations; directly relevant

  • Penetration Testing — Georgia Weidman

    Systematic methodology that applies to formal assessments

How to pass CYB 411

  • CVE/CVSS is the universal language of vulnerabilities — understand Base, Temporal, and Environmental scoring
  • Practice building a full assessment report from scanner output — this is the deliverable clients pay for
  • Connect each discovered vulnerability to the cryptography or network concepts from earlier courses
  • OWASP WSTG (Web Security Testing Guide) is the free, comprehensive standard for web assessments

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