Cybersecurity (CYB)

Introduces fundamental concepts and design principles in cybersecurity. Students will understand what, why and how to protect in the cyberworld. Topics include CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability), threats, attacks, defense, least privilege, access control and password management, security policies, critical controls, incident-handling and contingency planning, risk assessment and management.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Examines network architectures, threats and attack surfaces exploited by these threats. Students will look at network traffic inspection, common attacks and defensive techniques encryption, network segmentation, firewalls, application proxies, honeypots, DMZs, monitoring networks using intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems, and network access control.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Presents the principles of applied sociology that account for the human factors in security systems. Topics include an examination of the human role in cybersecurity, the role of security in the context of an organization, and a special focus on the development and implementation of cybersecurity policies.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Provides instruction on the process used to develop and maintain appropriate security levels for an organization with a focus on implementing a comprehensive security program, a documented set of security policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards. Topics include security planning, strategies, controls, and metrics for measuring effectiveness.

Prerequisites: CYB 700; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Introduces fundamentals of applied cryptography, including encryption and decryption, symmetric and asymmetric systems, pseudorandom functions, block ciphers, hash functions, common attacks, digital signatures, key exchange, message authentication and public key cryptography. Covers implementation of cryptographic systems in approved programming language, and survey of relevant mathematical concepts, including elementary number theory.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers risk management processes and tools, risk assessment and analysis models, economic and control implications, risk measurement, and the ethics of risk. Students will communicate the technical and management aspects of risk, based on research of their chosen industry, related regulation, recent industry reports, and risk implications to organizations, individuals and the nation.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Research, organize, and present technical information to audiences with varying goals and technical needs. Emphasis on ethics, critical thinking, listening skills, and feedback to develop effective Messages utilizing verbal and nonverbal communication strategies and visual aids. Individual and group presentations and projects will emulate professional scenarios in cybersecurity.

Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Provides instructions on the investigative and forensics processes of digital evidence with a focus on identifying indicators of compromise, the use of common forensic tools, and the preservation of forensics tools. Topics include forensics iconology, and the analysis of disk, memory, chip-off, mobile device, and OS artifacts.

Prerequisites: CYB 703; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

A primer on modern criminology with specific attention to the aspects of technology that facilitate criminal behaviors. Topics include computer crime laws, criminological theories of computer crime, court room and evidentiary procedure, idiographic and nomothetic digital profiling, computer crime victimology, habit/authorship attribution, stylometry, and case linkage analysis.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers protocol analysis, identification of malicious behavior in systems, and forensic investigations through event log aggregation, correlation and analysis. Students will analyze clips of wired and wireless network protocol analysis to discern methods of attacks and malicious activities.

Prerequisites: CYB 703; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Students will learn about the phases of an incident response system, and the use of IDS and forensics, dealing with false alarms and the remediation process to minimize business impact, plan business continuity, and work with law enforcement, auditors, insurance, and compliance in how to prevent future incidents.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers operating systems security infrastructure. Topics include, for a given operating system (Windows/Linux), updates and patches, access controls and account management, configuration management, hardening and securing services, and the use of scripting languages to automate security management. Additional topics may include auditing and forensics, virtualization and cloud computing.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers active defenses such as penetration testing, log management, hacking, threat management and system posturing. Students completing this course will have an understanding of, and the ability to preemptively secure computer and network resources by utilizing information about threats, actors and attack vectors and the ethics behind using this data.

Prerequisites: CYB 700, CYB 703; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers the policy and governance aspects of security. Topics include application of security policies, standards, procedures and guidelines to administration of IT and communications, assessment of compliance including contractual, legal, industry standard, privacy and regulatory requirements, and implementation of security audits and assessment of security performance and security policy-efficacy.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Focuses on leadership best practices and the interpersonal processes and structural characteristics that influence the effectiveness of teams. Emphasis will be placed on leadership models, principles of team building, group dynamics, problem solving, and crisis management in cybersecurity issues. Course will include case studies of modern security incidents.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers management of cybersecurity policies and strategies at the organizational, national, and transnational levels. Examines the implications of key domestic and international regulations and changes in information technology and communications on security operations. Includes development of organizational security preparation, processes, and responses, and developing a disaster recovery program.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Focuses on security architectures for the protection of information systems and data. Students completing this course can identify potential vulnerabilities in system architectures and design secure architectures. Topics include common enterprises and security architectures and their key design elements, such as secure cloud computing and virtualization infrastructures.

Prerequisites: CYB 703; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Provides an in-depth study of modern cryptography. Topics include public key and private key cryptography, types of attacks, cryptanalysis, perfect secrecy, hashing, digital signatures, virtual private networks, and quantum key cryptography. Topics from number theory and discrete probability necessary for understanding current cryptosystems and their security will be covered.

Prerequisites: CYB 710; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers the foundations of engineering secure applications, including techniques used to engineer secure software and assess the security of applications. Topics include exploring web vulnerabilities, secure development processes, implementing security features such as secure data storage and transmission, threat modeling, security requirements, code analysis, and penetration testing.

Prerequisites: Admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Covers the fundamentals and techniques to design and implement cyber-physical systems. Topics include the architecture of cyber-physical systems, exploiting software vulnerabilities, secure coding, microservices security, cloud services security, reverse engineering, security assessment of cyber-physical systems, and data analytics for security.

Prerequisites: CYB 775; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Prepares student for capstone experience. Drawing on skills learned, students will submit a written project proposal -- with organization, timeline, learning objectives, and specific deliverables identified --for faculty approval. This course is a prerequisite for the capstone course.

Prerequisites: CYB 700, CYB 703, CYB 705, CYB 707, CYB 710, CYB 715, and CYB 720; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.

Students present project identified in Capstone Preparation and submit a written report plus oral presentation to both faculty and host organization. Students will be assessed on clarity and content of written report and presentation.

Prerequisites: CYB 789; admitted MS-CYB degree seeking students only or program advisor consent on space available basis.

Offered: Yearly.