This course covers the understanding and managing of risks and threats to information and information systems. This includes protecting and defending information and information systems by ensuring through authorization and other means concepts such as accessibility, secrecy, reliability, and authentication.

This course provides students with advanced tools, techniques, and methodologies for accumulating, securing, analyzing, managing, and reporting evidence related to a forensics examination. The professional communication and presentation of the results of forensic investigations will be emphasized.

This course examines the concepts of operating systems such as memory and virtual memory management, as well as processor, process, device, and file management. Topics include the management and organization of network operating systems and operating system security and ethics. Students will manage, configure, and secure operating systems such as Windows, Unix, and Linux in laboratory environments.

This course examines network and web security issues including: risks and threats, system access points, hardware and software defense methods, and organizational security policies. The course will cover the analysis of systems for vulnerabilities, the implementation of security procedures, the monitoring of systems for security breaches, and the recovery or restoration of breached systems.

This course examines the major concepts of data security such as confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity, and non-repudiation. Topics include the four types of data security, the five major elements of data security, the three A?s of data security, and the seven components of data security strategies. Students will conduct labs that will expose them to the techniques and tools used in data security management within an organization.

This course examines the topic of ethics from a cybersecurity perspective. Topics include an introduction to the field of ethics; the three ethical frameworks; ethical hacking; issues related to privacy rights, surveillance, and intellectual property; and current cybersecurity codes of ethics. Students will further examine the topic of ethics through writing assignments, utilizing the major ethical frameworks ? virtue, utilitarian, and communitarian.