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  • CYEN 3321 ETHICAL HACKING

    CYEN 3321 ETHICAL HACKING
    Prerequisite(s): CYSC 2311
    This course provides an understanding of how to effectively protect computer networks. Students will learn the tools and penetration testing methodologies used by ethical hackers, defining what an ethical hacker is and who employs them. Topics will include gathering information and identifying flaws and vulnerabilities in documentation, software, and computer systems, and exploiting those flaws. Students will be provided with an overview of computer crime laws.

  • CYEN 3331 COMPUTER NETWORK SECURITY

    CYEN 3331 Computer Network Security
    Prerequisite(s): COSC 3342
    Overview of computer network security, broad coverage of cyber security concepts, computer network defense, computer network attack, and wireless security.

  • CYEN 3332 ETHICS AND CYBER WARFARE

    CYEN 3332 ETHICS AND CYBER WARFARE
    Prerequisite(s): CYEN 3321
    This course presents the student with issues of law and ethics in cyberspace and cyber warfare. Students will learn the proper techniques with which to approach the difficult ethical dilemmas that arise from using the modern Internet in addition to providing students with the skills to assess future ethical dilemmas for themselves. Topics covered include government regulation of online behavior, constitutional considerations concerning free speech and content controls, intellectual property, hacking, and the ethics of internet behavior.

  • CYEN 4331 DIGITAL FORENSICS CYBER CRIME

    CYEN 4331 Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime
    Prerequisite(s): COSC 3342
    An overview of forensics including methods to uncover and exploit digital evidence; cyber crime, forensics analysis techniques.

  • CYEN 4332 WIRELESS AND MOBILE SECURITY

    CYEN 4332 Wireless and Mobile Security
    Prerequisite(s): CYEN 3331
    Overview of wireless and mobile security providing students with practical and theoretical experiences. Topics include threat analysis, security infrastructure, security services, wireless network security components.

  • CYEN 4333 REVERSE ENGINEERING

    CYEN 4333 Reverse Engineering
    Prerequisite(s): CYEN 3331 or CYEN 4374
    Overview of reverse engineering techniques, modern tools for reverse engineering of machine code. Topics include gathering information, PE32 format, obfuscation techniques, memory dumping, and automating processes.

  • CYEN 4335 APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY

    CYEN 4335 Applied Cryptography
    Prerequisite(s): COSC 3342 and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3111
    An introduction to the basic theory and practice of cryptographic techniques used in computer security. Topics include probability and statistics, encryption, key management, hashing, and network security protocols

  • CYEN 4337 SECURITY OPERATIONS

    CYEN 4337 Security Operations
    Prerequisite(s): CYEN 3331
    Overview of security assessment, network operations, and security protocols.

  • CYEN 4352 DISTRIBUTED & CLOUD COMPUTING

    CYEN 4352 Distributed and Cloud Computing
    Prerequisite(s): COSC 4351
    Overview of distributed computing. Theoretical and applicable aspects of distributed systems and cloud computing. Modeling aspects including architecture, performance, reliability, availability, service models, security characteristics.

  • CYEN 4371 ACCESS CNTRL LOGIC COVRT CHNLS

    CYEN 4371 Access Control Logic and Covert Channels
    Prerequisite(s): CYEN 3331 and MATH 3311
    An overview of access control logic and covert channels. Topics include access control concepts and logic, covert channel detection, future security predictions, steganography, steganalysis, data hiding.

  • CYEN 4373 INDUSTRIAL SECURITY

    CYEN 4373 Industrial Security
    Prerequisite(s): CYEN 3331 or ELEN 2341
    Corequisite(s): None

    Principles and concepts of industrial security infrastructure. Topics include PLC programming, SCADA systems, firewalls, segregation of corporate and industrial networks.

  • CYEN 4374 OT NETWORK SECURITY

    CYEN 4374 OT Network Security
    Prerequisite(s): ELEN 4374
    Corequisite(s): None
    Fee(s): None
    Overview of industrial security, broad coverage of cyber security concepts, industrial network defense, industrial network attack, and wireless security.

  • CYEN 4381 DATA ANALYTICS

    CYEN 4381 Data Analytics
    Prerequisite(s): COSC 2355
    Introduction to data analytics; key tools and concepts from the functional, technical, and implementation perspective of using data analytics to solve real world challenges.

  • CYEN 4391 BLOCKCHAIN

    CYEN 4391 Blockchain
    Prerequisite(s): CYEN 3331
    the course covers all aspects of cryptocurrencies, including distributed consensus, blockchains, smart contracts and applications; focusing on Bitcoin and Ethereum as case studies. Prior background in Python within a Unix environment is recommended, but no previous Bitcoin knowledge is necessary.