CIS 279 - Managing Network Security

5.0 Credits
Projects include: Conducting vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and organizational security audits driven by policy. Course maps to the CEH certification. Prerequisite: CIS 173 and CIS 277, with minimum grades of 2.5 or equivalent experience.

Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Describe the types of resources that need to be protected in a networked environment. [COMMUNICATE].
Create a security policy. [REASON]
Write procedures for forming a security organization/department. [REASON]
Describe the functions of a security team. [COMMUNICATE]
Describe the procedures for selecting appropriate security components. [REASON]
Describe the major types of DOS attacks and how to protect against them. [REASON]
Describe how to conduct security audits. [COMMUNICATE]
Discuss the process of auditing logs and how the audit process should be implemented. [REASON]
Describe how to conduct a postmortem analysis of an attack. [REASON]