CIS 401 - Advanced Network Security

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

Covers security aspects of systems and infrastructures for modern applications, mission-critical assets and smart-built environments. Topics include virtualized environments, vulnerability and threat assessment, attack analysis and risk management, reactive and proactive defense, and resiliency. This is a project-based course utilizing sand-boxed virtualized environments to explore weaknesses and vulnerabilities, exploits, attack impact and cost, and appropriate mitigations. Prerequisite(s): CIS 303 and CIS 303L with a minimum grade of C.