CISR offers students the opportunity to choose one of several specialty tracks designed to provide students with courses that lead to a concentration in one of many exciting areas of study in Information Assurance. Listed below are the IA courses currently being offered by the CISR group. Select MS Track on the left for more information about IA tracks.
CS3600: Introduction to Information Assurance: Computer Security (4-2)
Covers technical overview of terminology and concepts associated with the field of Information Assurance.
CS3606: An Introduction to Information System Security (4-0)
This Web-based DL class covers basic overview of terminology and concepts associated with the field of Information Assurance.
CS3610: Information Ethics (4-0)
Covers ethical analysis and decision-making in the context of information technology.
CS3640: Analysis of DoD Critical Infrastructure Protection (3-1)
Covers the DoD perspective on protecting critical infrastructures, including both cyber and physical systems.
CS3670: Information Assurance: Secure Management of Systems (3-2)
Covers management concerns associated with computer-based information systems.
CS3686:
Identity Management
Infrastructure (3-0)
This course covers a broad range
of topics related to the
standards, protocols,
technology, and management
infrastructure necessary to
field an enterprise-level
identity management (IdM)
solution.
CS3690: Network Security (4-2)
Covers a broad range of topics in security for networked and internetworked computer systems.
CS3695: Network Vulnerability
Assessment and Risk Mitigation
(3-2)
Covers network system
vulnerabilities and the related
mitigating techniques.
CS3699:
Biometrics (3-0)
This course reviews the
technical details of biometric
identification and verification.
CS4600: Secure Systems (3-2)
Covers implementation of protection for monolithic and distributed secure computer systems.
CS4603: Database Security (3-1)
Covers access control implementations associated with database security.
CS4605: Security Policies, Models, and Formal Methods (3-1)
Covers methods used to specify, model, and verify computational systems providing access control.
CS4614: Advanced Topics in Computer Security (3-1)
Covers topics in software, communications, and data security.
CS4650: Fundamentals of
Information Systems Security
Engineering (3-1)
Covers the concepts and
techniques that are needed to
systematically elicit, derive
and validate security
requirements.
CS4652:
Applied Information Systems
Security Engineering (3-2)
Covers the standards, processes
and regulatory compliance
requirements that are necessary
to design, implement and test
new secure systems.
CS4675: Intrusion Detection and Response (3-1)
Introduction to methods of intrusion detection in computer systems and networks and the possible methods of automatic response.
CS4677: Computer Forensics (3-2)
Covers the fundamentals of computer forensics as it might be used in the context of DoN/DoD activities.
CS4678: Advanced Vulnerability Assessment (4-2)
Provides a basis for understanding the potential vulnerabilities in networks systems by applying a problem-solving approach to obtaining information about a remote network.
CS4680: Introduction to Certification and Accreditation (3-2)
Covers the C&A process as applied to DoD and Federal information systems.
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