Infor Security & Assurance I.

Catalog description

This course aims to introduce students to the rapidly evolving and critical areas of information security. It provides students with foundational security knowledge and skills, including threats and vulnerabilities; application, data, and host security; access control and identity management; and cryptography. The course covers new topics in information security, including psychological approaches to social engineering attacks and the use of malware, web application attacks, penetration testing, data loss prevention, and application programming development security. The course has labs providing a virtual environment for students to explore and learn Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) threat actors use to develop and execute cyber-attacks. The course and lab will help students learn information security principles and methods; and teach them how to work with infrastructure security, network security, security devices and management, and access control monitoring systems.