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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 minimum grades of 2.5 or equivalent experience.

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



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