Advanced Risk Analytics

Catalog description

This course focuses on protecting data and information in today's digital world related to strategy and policy, awareness, data classification, ownership and accountability, monitoring, and reporting. The course covers network components that comprise the environment, where the data are input, processed, stored, and how the data travel through the Intranet, Extranet, and Internet. Upon completing the course, students learn to assess the impact of data in the digital world, considering the steps that the Government, Corporations, and the Private Sector take to protect information assets. Students understand the components that comprise network security and how each component provides protection. They become familiar with preventative and detective tools such as anti-malware, ACL, virus protection, cryptography, intrusion detection, audit logs, and logical and physical controls and perform information risk assessments.