Cyber Information Security

Catalog description

This course is an overview of information security. Topics include, security tenets (confidentiality, integrity, availability), security domains (user, workstation, LAN, LAN-to-WAN, WAN, remote access, system/application), security policy frameworks, business assets and their associated risks, threats, and vulnerabilities, risk management, access controls (physical/logical), layered defense, business continuity, data backup and disaster recovery, configuration baselines and change management, attack types, phases, and tools, malware, attack prevention tools and techniques, security auditing and monitoring, incident handling, principles of symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography, security standards, U.S. compliance laws, social engineering attacks, and professional ethics. Course includes hands-on, web-based, virtual security lab activities where security tools and techniques are practiced. Prerequisites: CIS 211 and CIS 213 with a "C" or better.