Computer Information Technology

This course prepares students to understand the body of technologies, processes, and practices designed to protect  networks, computers, programs and data from attack, damage, or unauthorized access.  The course also teaches the student to understand the concept of cyber resilience.

This course prepares students to understand the basic knowledge of networking and provides understanding of how networks are built and operate, and gives students some experience with basic network analysis tools.  Students are exposed to the concept of potential vulnerabilities in a network.  Also, provides students with an understanding of the hardware, communications, management, and programming environments associated with mobile technologies.

This course teaches the student to understand cyber threat intelligence.  The student learns that cyber threat intelligence is what cyber threat information becomes once it has been collected, evaluated in the context of its source and reliability, and analyzed through rigorous and structured tradecraft techniques by those with substantive expertise and access to all-source information.

This course uses a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises to demonstrate the use of best practices in developing secure software applications and the tools for investigating anomalies and vulnerabilities in application software.  Students will engage in a variety of course assignments focusing on related topics, including buffer overflow, structured query language (SQL) injections, selected programming and scripting languages, and the security of web applications on both the client and server side.

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a basic understanding of technologies and services that enable cloud computing, different types of cloud computing models, and the security and legal issues associated with cloud computing.

This course builds on the foundations of Cyber Intelligence which focuses on applying intelligence analytic methods to plan, collect, process, analyze, produce, and disseminate cyber intelligence products.  Students will learn to apply intelligence analytic methods to create actionable intelligence products that support a cybersecurity mission.  Cyber Security Intelligence incorporates threat intelligence, threat analysis, and other forms of securing computer networks taught in other courses of the curriculum.

This block of instruction will cover the people, processes, and technology necessary to build a Security Operations Center.  A Security Operations Center (SOC) is a facility composed of people, processes, and technology that houses an information security team responsible for monitoring and analyzing an organization's security posture on an ongoing basis.