CMGT/400 - Intro to Information Assurance & Security
Course Description
This course is an introduction to information assurance and security in computing technology. Topics include risk management; protecting information in the enterprise; business continuity and disaster recovery planning; threats and remediation; legal, ethical, and professional issues; and considerations within systems development processes.
This undergraduate course is 5 weeks.
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Course Objectives
Week 1
- Compare and contrast types of security attacks and the malware used to perpetrate them.
- Describe threat actor types and attributes.
- Explain penetration testing and vulnerability scanning concepts.
- Evaluate security threats and vulnerabilities in virtualization and cloud technologies.
Week 2
- Describe hardware and software based network components used to support organizational security.
- Explain the use of software tools to assess the security of an organization’s enterprise computing architecture.
- Create a plan to securely deploy mobile devices.
- Compare and contrast physical security and environmental controls.
- Develop identity and access management policies.
- Recommend cryptography and public key infrastructure (PKI).
Week 3
- Explain the importance of policies, plans, and procedures related to organizational security.
- Incorporate industry and government regulations into an organization’s cyber security plan.
- Analyze the legal, ethical, and regulatory considerations of protecting data.
Week 4
- Create a security risk management plan.
- Create a disaster recovery and business continuity of operations plan.
Week 5
- Explain the importance of secure application design, development, and deployment.
- Design a secure staging deployment environment for an organization.
- Analyze the security implications of embedded systems.
- Evaluate the use of secure coding techniques in the development process.
Prerequisites
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