CMSI 563 Cyberdefense

3 semester hours

Practices for the protection of enterprise information assets and systems by integrating technical controls with accepted policies, best practices, and guidelines of cybersecurity. External and internal threats, and risks to the core business relative to people, processes, data, facilities, and technologies. Implementation and effective management of the major technical components of security architectures (firewalls, VPNs, etc.) and selected methods of attacking enterprise architectures. Assessment and mitigation, threat and vulnerability analysis, risk remediation, operations, incident handling, business community planning, disaster recovery, security policy formulation and implementation, large-scale cybersecurity program coordination, management controls related to cybersecurity programs, and information sharing. Privacy, legal, compliance, and ethical issues.