Recent SemestersFall 2026, Spring 2026Class Size30 studentsCredits3PrerequisitePreviously taken CTIS-15 and CTIS-20 is advised. Transfers ToCSUDescription<b><font color="7A0018">Begins Fall 2025</b></font><br>This course that introduces students to the concepts, principles, and techniques, supplemented by hands-on exercises, for attacking and disabling a network within the context of properly securing a network. The course emphasizes network attack methods with the emphasis on student use of network attack techniques and tools and appropriate defenses and countermeasures. Students receive course content information through a variety of methods: lecture and demonstration of hacking tools will be used in addition to a virtual environment. Students experience a hands-on practical approach to penetration testing measures and ethical hacking. 