Cyber Security and Operations Courses

Cyber Security and Operations Courses

 

Under construction.  See the NPS Academic Catalog for more detailed descriptions of each course.

 

CS3600: Introduction to Cybersecurity (4-1)
Covers technical overview of terminology and concepts associated with the field of Information Assurance.

CS3606: An Introduction to Information System Security (4-0)
This Web-based DL class covers basic overview of terminology and concepts associated with the field of Information Assurance.

CS3610: Information Ethics (4-0)
Covers ethical analysis and decision-making in the context of information technology.

CS3640: Analysis of DoD Critical Infrastructure Protection (3-1)
Covers the DoD perspective on protecting critical infrastructures, including both cyber and physical systems.

CS3670: Secure Management of Systems (3-2)
Covers management concerns associated with computer-based information systems.

CS3686: Identity Management Infrastructure (3-0)
This course covers a broad range of topics related to the standards, protocols, technology, and management infrastructure necessary to field an enterprise-level identity management (IdM) solution.

CS3690: Network Security (4-1)
Covers a broad range of topics in security for networked and internetworked computer systems.

CS3695: Network Vulnerability Assessment and Risk Mitigation (3-2)
Covers network system vulnerabilities and the related mitigating techniques.

CS3697: Secure Management of Operational Technology Systems (3-1)
Covers management concerns associated with machine control systems

CS3699: Biometrics (3-0)
This course reviews the technical details of biometric identification and verification.

CS4600: Secure System Principles (3-2)
Covers implementation of protection for monolithic and distributed secure computer systems.

CS4603: Database Security (3-1)
Covers access control implementations associated with database security.

CS4605: Security Policies, Models, and Formal Methods (3-1)
Covers methods used to specify, model, and verify computational systems providing access control.

CS4614: Advanced Topics in Computer Security (3-1)
Covers topics in software, communications, and data security.

CS4615: Cryptographic Protocol Design and Attacks (3-1)
This course examines protocol design and protocol-analysis techniques.

CS4648: Software Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis (3-2)
Study of how malware is constructed and operated.

CS4650: Fundamentals of Information Systems Security Engineering (3-1)
Covers the concepts and techniques that are needed to systematically elicit, derive and validate security requirements.

CS4652: Applied Information Systems Security Engineering (3-2)
Covers the standards, processes and regulatory compliance requirements that are necessary to design, implement and test new secure systems.

CS4675: Intrusion Detection and Response (3-1)
Introduction to methods of intrusion detection in computer systems and networks and the possible methods of automatic response.

CS4677: Computer Forensics (3-2)
Covers the fundamentals of computer forensics as it might be used in the context of DoN/DoD activities.

CS4678: Advanced Vulnerability Assessment (4-2)
Provides a basis for understanding the potential vulnerabilities in networks systems by applying a problem-solving approach to obtaining information about a remote network.

CS4679: Advances in Cyber Security Operations (4-1)
Emerging techniques used in cyber operations

CS4680: Introduction to Certification and Accreditation (3-2)
Covers the C&A process as applied to DoD and Federal information systems.

CS4684: Cyber Security Risk Mitigation and Recovery (3-2)

CS4690: Security for Cyber-Physical Systems