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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 a minimum grade of 2.5) or equivalent experience. Corequisite


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

  1. Describe the types of resources that need to be protected in a networked environment.
  2. Create a security policy.
  3. Write procedures for forming a security organization/department.
  4. Describe the functions of a security team.
  5. Describe the procedures for selecting appropriate security components.
  6. Describe the major types of DOS attacks and how to protect against them.
  7. Describe how to conduct security audits.
  8. Discuss the process of auditing logs and how the audit process should be implemented.
  9. Describe how to conduct a postmortem analysis of an attack.



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