Threat Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment

This unit develops students’ ability to identify, assess, and prioritize cyber threats and system vulnerabilities using threat intelligence and scanning tools. Students will practice documenting findings, recommending mitigations, and preparing basic incident response actions to reduce organizational risk.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze threat intelligence sources and vulnerability scan results to identify and prioritize risks to systems and networks
• Apply industry-standard scanning and enumeration tools to discover common vulnerabilities and produce reproducible findings
• Demonstrate remediation and hardening techniques (patch management, access controls, configuration changes, and network segmentation) to reduce identified vulnerabilities
• Evaluate mitigation strategies and produce a prioritized mitigation plan and incident response checklist aligned with organizational risk tolerance