VU21997 - Expose website security vulnerabilities

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Unit code: VU21997 | Study level: TAFE
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Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Sunshine
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Overview

This unit provides the knowledge and skills required to ensure and maintain the security of an organisation’s website by utilizing the outcomes of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). Current penetration testing tools are also utilised to determine the vulnerabilities of a web site. Vulnerabilities are assessed and reported to appropriate personnel to minimize risk.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • communicate and contribute as a member of a team;
  • solve problems related to an organisation's website security vulnerabilities;
  • ability to read and comprehend technical procedures and documents;
  • use a laptop or a workstation;
  • install and interpret software test packages;
  • plan and present proposed solutions to a client, and;
  • contribute to writing reports.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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