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CIS 279 - Designing Network Security


5.0 Credits
Projects include: Analyzing various networks and business needs and designing and defending appropriate corporate security policies, designing secure networks. Prerequisite: Completion of at least 20 credits in Networking or IT Security topics, with minimum grades of 2.5 or equivalent experience.

Course Objectives
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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