CAE-CO MKU M6

CO-M6 Cybersecurity Foundations

Cyber operators must be able to describe the current cybersecurity threat landscape, including the various motivations, objectives, and methods of cyber threat actors.

Learning outcomes

What a student must demonstrate to claim coverage of this unit. Each outcome links to the skill drills that assess it.

CO-M6-O1 Apply the principle of least privilege to system configuration and user management.

EWU courses that cover this unit

CSCD381 partial

CSCD 381 — Cybersecurity III: Offense and Defense

Vulnerability Analysis (CAE-CO Mandatory).

CSCD438 primary

CSCD 438 — Vulnerability Analysis

Vulnerability Analysis (CAE-CO Mandatory).

CSCD439 strong

CSCD 439 — Offensive Cyber Operations

Vulnerability Analysis.

Exam questions that cite this unit

CSCD240-E1-A-Q05 permissions-anatomy Describe what r, w, x, and - mean and what each group of three symbols means.
CSCD240-E1-B-Q04 recon Print the groups your user belongs to.
CSCD240-E1-B-Q07 setuid-effect What does the setuid bit cause when the file is executed? Use "effective user ID".
CSCD240-E1-C-Q04 setuid A -rwsr-xr-x file owned by root. Execution causes what?
CSCD240-E1-C-Q41 threat-reasoning -rwsrwxrwx root root .xhelper in /tmp. Why alarming?
CSCD240-E1-C-Q46 malicious-alias .bashrc contains alias ls='rm -rf'. Consequence if planted and user opens a new shell?

Other units at this tier in CAE-CO

CO-M1 Cyber Policy, Law, and Ethics CO-M10 Offensive Cyber Operations CO-M2 Computer Science Foundations CO-M3 Operating Systems CO-M4 Computer Networks CO-M5 Systems Programming CO-M7 Applied Cryptography CO-M8 Software Reverse Engineering CO-M9 Defensive Cyber Operations