Students present project identified in Capstone Preparation and submit a written report plus oral presentation to both faculty and host organization. Students will be assessed on clarity and content of written report and presentation. Host evaluation will account for a significant percentage of student’s final grade. Prerequisites: CYB 789 CYB 790 Syllabus
Prepares student for capstone experience. Drawing on skills learned, students will submit a written project proposal – with organization, timeline, learning objectives, and specific deliverables identified – for faculty approval. This course is a pre-requisite for the capstone course. Prerequisites: All seven core courses must be completed CYB 789 Syllabus
Covers the fundamentals and techniques to design and implement cyber-physical systems. Topics include the architecture of cyber-physical systems, exploiting software vulnerabilities, secure coding, microservices security, cloud services security, reverse engineering, security assessment of cyber-physical systems, and data analytics for security. Students may choose CYB 780 or CYB 785 to satisfy the Security Architecture track requirements.
Covers the foundations of engineering secure applications, including techniques used to engineer secure software and assess the security of applications. Topics include exploiting web vulnerabilities, secure development processes, implementing security features such as secure data storage and transmission, threat modeling, security requirements, code analysis, and penetration testing. Students may choose to take CYB 780 or
An in-depth study of modern cryptography. Topics include public key and private key cryptography, types of attacks, cryptanalysis, perfect secrecy, hashing, digital signatures, virtual private networks, and quantum key cryptography. Topics from number theory and discrete probability necessary for understanding current cryptosystems and their security will be covered. Prerequisites: CYB 710 CYB 775 Syllabus
Focuses on security architectures for the protection of information systems and data. Students completing this course can identify potential vulnerabilities in system architectures and design secure architectures. Topics include common enterprise and security architectures and their key design elements, such as secure cloud computing and virtualization infrastructures. Prerequisites: CYB 703 CYB_770_Syllabus
Covers management of cybersecurity policies and strategies at the organizational, national, and transnational levels. Examines the convergence of information technology, communications/telecommunications, and policy making with regulatory branches and key domestic and international bodies. Includes development of organizational security preparation, process, and responses, and developing a disaster recovery program. Prerequisites: CYB 700, CYB 703, CYB 705,
Focuses on leadership best practices and the interpersonal processes and structural characteristics that influence the effectiveness of teams. Emphasis will be placed on leadership models, principles of team building, group dynamics, problem solving, and crisis management in cybersecurity issues. Course will include case studies of modern security incidents. CYB 760 Syllabus
Covers the policy and governance aspects of security. Topics include application of security policies, standards, procedures and guidelines to administration of IT and communications, assessment of compliance including contractual, legal, industry standard, privacy and regulatory requirements, and implementation of security audits and assessment of security performance and security policy efficacy. Prerequisites: CYB 700, CYB 703,
Preemptively secure computer and network resources by utilizing information about threats, actors and attack vectors, and processes including red, blue, and purple teaming, and the ethics behind using this data. Topics include active defenses such as penetration testing, log management, hacking, threat management and system posturing. Prerequisites: CYB 700, CYB 703 CYB 750 Syllabus
