Cybersecurity and Loss Prevention

Catalog description

Class Hours: 3 Lab/Discussion: 0 Credits: 3 Prerequisite: CRIM 101 or CRIM 102 Description: Addresses the cybersecurity threat from a more comprehensive standpoint. Challenges students to recognize and understand security concerns from multiple perspectives, ranging from the insider threat to threats involving the actual physical components. Exposure to a design methodology, associated system components modules, and basic security principles is featured. Students also are exposed to the private and public responses to computer security problems, including the insider threat, domestic and foreign terrorism, and a number of unique computer crimes and solutions to deal with these crimes. The importance of a sound security policy in the overall management of any organization is addressed.