Cyber Technology Program Capstone

Catalog description

This course is designed for graduate students who are, or aspire to be, either business managers or information systems (IS) managers, as well as those who are, or aspire to be, primarily technology specialists who will work in and for different types of businesses, including consultant firms and other firms competing in an information technology (IT) services industry. This course builds upon, and reinforces, all previous courses within the IT management portfolio by providing a realistic scenario through which the student must continuously apply previously learned concepts to develop or revise policies, architectures, business case and risk analyses, and supporting processes and contracts required to plan, design, operate, maintain, and manage a network and lead the IT department’s personnel. Upon completion of this course, the student should have a working model and useful artifacts for the policies, processes, and required actions to run an effective IT department. In this course, each student will continue to play the role of the CIO-in-training for South Balance. The course will take the student through a continuous scenario that will build each week and help the student develop a complete digital technology transformation plan for the final project. In this Capstone course, students will apply cybersecurity management concepts, best practices, technical knowledge and principles as learned throughout the Program from the perspective of an organizational CSO/CISO. Through Case Study, students will display mastery of these through the creation of deliverables necessary to manage an effective enterprise cybersecurity program. This will include review/documentation of an IT organization’s security posture, and creation of a RiskManagement structure, Security Policy/Operational Framework, and Budget.