CSEC 45003 - Defensive Cyber Operations

Three credit hours.

This course provides an in-depth study of defensive cyber operations combined with foundational cyber forensics. Students will develop the skills to detect, analyze, mitigate, and recover from cyber attacks in enterprise environments. The course emphasizes adversarial thinking, vulnerability assessment, malware detection, system hardening, incident response, and forensic investigation. Students will also learn how to collect, preserve, analyze, and articulate digital evidence in a manner suitable for legal and professional proceedings, including writing forensic reports and defending findings under scrutiny. Dual listed in the Graduate Catalog as CSEC 55003.

Prerequisites: CSEC 43013.