• Online, Self-Paced

Modern attacks have only become more pervasive and sophisticated. This course covers application and service-level attacks and will prepare you for the Security+ SY0-501 exam.

Learning Objectives

Application and Service Attacks

  • start the course
  • describe zero day attacks
  • classify spoofing
  • recognize DoS and DDoS attacks
  • describe man-in-the-middle attacks
  • define ARP poisoning
  • describe buffer overflow attacks
  • recognize injection attacks
  • define privilege escalation
  • compare reflection and amplification
  • describe DNS poisoning
  • recognize domain hijacking
  • define man-in-the-browser
  • compare cross-site scripting and request forgery
  • describe replay attacks
  • define pass the hash attacks

Practice: Application Attacks

  • recognize application and service attacks

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Cyber Defense Analysis
  • Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support
  • Cybersecurity Management
  • Systems Architecture
  • Threat Analysis

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.