Security Assessment and Vulnerability Management

Students enrolled in the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) Security Assessment and Vulnerability Management course will bolster their knowledge of cyber security through the use of security assessment and vulnerability management strategies and tools. With skills gained in this course, students will be able to perform security vulnerability assessments at an enterprise level. Security assessments provide security posture: a measurement that allows an organization to anticipate future security breaches.

Graduates of this course will be able to describe security assessments and evaluate systems, applications, networks, policies, and procedures to discover, analyze, and mitigate vulnerabilities. As a graduate of this course, students will be able to ensure their existing security controls are effective by using vulnerability assessment and penetration testing to monitor, identify, and manage threats. Students will also be able to use a set of methodologies to combine risk assessments and information security assessments.