CYS 2310 - Defensive CyberOps and Audit

Prerequisite(s): CYS 2100; NET 2300.
In order to provide better network security protection to an organization, it is important to understand various aspects of organizational security so that these aspects can be incorporated and utilized, leading to improvement in organizational defenses and thus helping protect company assets from attacks. In this course, students gain a thorough grounding on topics like organizational frameworks, policies, procedures, controls, good hardware and software assurance practices, types of threats, data available in terms of threats, and various threat detection techniques and vulnerability management. They will also gain knowledge on the concept of a security audit plan and various categories of audits and assessments. Credit(s): 3