Cyber Science and IT Business Operations

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This course focuses on IT auditing processes, cyber threats and their effect on common infrastructures, the properties and applications of specific loss count and loss severity distributions, actuarial modeling, and forensic accounting techniques. Topics include the planning of security provisions, countermeasures and deployment, as well as understanding the impact of attacks (evidence gathering and investigation), which depend on a combination of technology and business acumen. Certain estimation methods like percentile matching, maximum likelihood estimation, Bayesian estimation and credibility theory are also introduced.