Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA)

Name: Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA)
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Created byStone River eLearning

Last updated 9/2018

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What you'll learn

Understand the importance of vulnerability assessment
Learn about the different types of vulnerabilities
Assess the network for potential vulnerabilities
Assess web servers and applications security
Secure and assess remote and VPN services
Learn to use the vulnerability assessment tools of the trade
Analyze output

Course content

8 sections • 14 lectures • 3h 11m total length

Course Introduction10:33
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Why Vulnerability Assessment Part115:20
Why Vulnerability Assessment Part210:45
Learn to conduct a network vulnerability assessment through data collection, interviews, and hands-on investigation; analyze assets, threats, and risks, prioritize safeguards, and align with risk management standards.
Why Vulnerability Assessment Part38:11
Learn vulnerability assessment essentials, including authorization creep, separation and rotation of duties, and qualitative and quantitative risk analysis with single and annualized loss expectancy.
Why Vulnerability Assessment Part411:58
Quantify risk, justify countermeasures, and compare annual loss expectancy and residual risk for cost-beneficial decisions.
Module 01 - Quiz

Vulnerability Types Part110:53
Explore critical vulnerability types, including buffer overflow, directory traversal, format string attacks, and default passwords, and learn best practices to prevent information leaks, denial of service, and system compromise.
Vulnerability Types Part212:28
Examine backdoors and information leaks that enable attackers to map networks, including memory disclosure, banners, path disclosures, SNMP and ICMP reconnaissance, and botnets-based denial of service threats.
Module 02 - Quiz

Assessing the Network Part119:49
Master a network security assessment platform, performing internet-hosted enumeration, IP scanning, and service checks across Windows, Linux, and Unix. Explore virtualization and exploitation frameworks like Metasploit.
Assessing the Network Part219:56
Assess network enumeration techniques using dig for DNS lookups, web crawling with tools like spider foot and Nmap scans, including SMTP probing and SMB null sessions.
Module 03 - Quiz

Assessing Web Servers & Applications Part112:47
Fingerprint web servers and subsystems, assess reverse proxies and authentication, and analyze web applications for vulnerabilities, including SQL injection and brute-force risks.
Assessing Web Servers & Applications Part214:43
Assess web servers and applications by examining extended stored procedures, direct attacks, privilege escalation, port configurations, query strings, and cross-site scripting, and apply input validation and encoding defense strategies.
Module 04 - Quiz

Requirements

Although there are no prerequisites to take the course or sit the exam, it is recommended prospective learners have basic understanding of networking.

Description

The Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA) course is a vendor neutral certification preparatory course with the objective to deliver the importance of vulnerability assessments by providing intricate knowledge and skills in the Vulnerability Assessment arena. The CVA course provides foundational knowledge of general VA tools as well as popular exploits an IT engineer should be familiar with.

The Certified Vulnerability Assessor is a fundamental cyber security course that focuses on vulnerability assessments. The CVA course focuses on the basic knowledge of conducting a vulnerability assessment and analyze the outcomes to prevent break-ins to the network infrastructure of an organization. The course teaches the candidates to identify the basic malware and virus patterns and the tools and techniques required to prevent the infiltration of the malware and virus into the network. The graduating students will be able to effectively perform a security vulnerability assessment on a network and secure the organization’s IT infrastructure.

Exam Information

The Certified Vulnerability Assessor exam is taken online through Mile2’s Assessment and Certification System (“MACS”), which is accessible on your mile2.account. The exam will take 2 hours and consist of 100 multiple choice questions.

Who this course is for:

Information System Owners
Analysts
Ethical Hackers
ISSO’s
Cyber Security Managers
IT Engineers

Certified Vulnerability Assessor (CVA)

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Course content

Course Introduction1 lecture • 11min

Module 01 - Why Vulnerability Assessment4 lectures • 46min

Module 02 - Vulnerability Types2 lectures • 23min

Module 03 - Assessing the Network2 lectures • 40min

Module 04 - Assessing Web Servers & Applications2 lectures • 28min

Module 05 - Assessing Remote & VPN Services1 lecture • 17min

Module 06 - Vulnerability Assessment Tools of the Trade1 lecture • 15min

Module 07 - Output Analysis1 lecture • 12min

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