Security

This course examines the organization and practices of the Department Homeland Security and the threats it faces. Topics include agency structure and history, law, risk management, intelligence, security, and threat response and recovery.

This course covers the basic assessment skills and solutions needed to proactively deliver security services, namely the prevention of security incidents and the detection of those that occur. Emphasis is placed on both line-level skills and managerial skills required to conduct security tasks to facilitate the prevention and detection of crime, with a special focus on the technologies and technological skills needed to perform these tasks in all forms of security work.

This is a lab-based course that provides the knowledge and skills to identify, track and prosecute cybercriminals. Students are presented an understanding of computer forensics, creating a secure lab and the process for forensic investigation, including first responder response techniques, incident management and reports used by computer forensic investigators. The course covers a broad base of topics designed to detect attacks and collect evidence in a forensically sound manner. Topics also include the preparatory steps to identify evidence in computer-related crime and abuse cases as well as track a hacker's path through a client system.

This is a lab-based course that covers topics in offensive network security, ethical hacking, network defense and countermeasures. The course provides an understanding of the tactics and tools used by hackers and methods to prepare strong countermeasures and defensive systems to protect an organization's critical infrastructure and information. Topics include perimeter defense techniques, scanning and attacking simulated networks with a variety of tools, viruses and malware.

This is a lab-based course that covers topics in advanced penetration testing and information security analysis. Students are exposed to methodologies in conducting thorough information security analysis and advanced penetration testing techniques to effectively identify and mitigate risks to the security of an organization's infrastructure.