CSEC 3123 — Cyber Defense I
This course introduces the fundamental principles of cyber defense. Topics covered include: security fundamental principles, vulnerability assessment, intrusion detection, cryptography protocols, network defense, trust relationships, and legal and ethical issues in computer security. A balance between theory and current practice will be presented. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to: identification of reconnaissance operations, anomaly/intrusion detection, anomaly identification, identification of command and control operations, identification of data exfiltration activities, identifying malicious code based on signatures, behavior, and artifacts, networking security techniques and components (e.g., firewalls, IDS, etc.), cryptography (include PKI cryptography) and its uses in cybersecurity, malicious activity detection, system security architectures and concepts, defense in depth, and virtualization.