Cybersecurity

IS/IT professionals know that hackers and cyber-terrorists have now pushed corporations to new levels of alertness, creating the need for heightened security to protect both infrastructure and data. This course provides students with the tools to implement and maintain security within their organization. Specific topics include tools to implement and maintain security within an organization and skills to assess and manage risk as well as evaluate crypto tools.

This course expands students' knowledge in the IS and IT security field, including the critical security concepts impacting today's businesses. Specific topics include communication security, infrastructure security, cloud computing, cryptography, access control, authentication, external attacks, and operational and organization security.