Everyone likes to feel secure. As more and more companies open themselves up to the Internet, security has become a real – and growing – challenge. This course is broken down into three modules where you’ll learn various methods for securing and protecting a network and defending it against hackers. In the first module, you’ll be introduced to various hacker techniques and methodologies. In the second, you’ll examine a number of ways to secure servers against typical exploits. And finally, you’ll gain an understanding of basic secure architectures for computer networks and how to maintain security on your system. Best of all, by semester’s end you’ll be ready to compete against your classmates in the Hacker Olympics.

Do you Linux? Learn how to install, customize and administer the fastest-growing operating system in corporate America for the past several years. This course will provide you with extensive hands-on exposure to the basics of Red Hat, the most popular distribution of Linux. You’ll learn how to use the operating system to perform basic operations, understand its applications in an enterprise, and apply them in a work environment.

You’ve got the basics, now take your security know-how to new heights. As society grows more and more dependent on digital information, understanding how it can be misused has become vitally important. In this course, you’ll gain extensive exposure to all aspects of network security, including intrusion detection, prevention and response; malicious code; policy and mechanism; firewalls and VPN’s, router security; cryptographic protocols for privacy and integrity; and the cost of prevention. Then you’ll have the opportunity to break into teams and use your newly learned techniques to “capture the flag” by locating a prize that has been hidden somewhere on the network.

So you’ve just been hacked…now what? Think Sherlock Holmes in the digital age. In this course, you’ll learn how to find, collect and evaluate digital evidence so that you can build a case in a court of law. Covering both the UNIX and Windows NT-based systems, as well as servers, cell phones, and PDAs, this class will explore their security measures and security deficiencies, as demonstrated via documented attacks and analyses. In addition, actual cyber crimes and intrusion records will be used as case studies for you to study before setting out with the rest of your classmates to collect all the evidence you can to capture a cyber criminal!

This course is designed to introduce students to basic IT professional services theories and practices, including an examination of the professional services industry. A consulting-oriented systems life cycle framework is used as the outline of the course. The phases of this framework include: problem/system analysis and evaluation, requirements definition, solution design, solution development, solution implementation, and on-going evaluation and maintenance. Students will learn how to identify and define client problems, map workflows, develop recommendations, and prototype solutions. They will be given opportunities to practice the concepts and methodologies they learn by working on a group project.

In 2007, the FBI reported that over 200 major companies reported a loss of over 60 million dollars due to computer crime. Computers are becoming more of a threat today than ever before. From cyber-terrorism to identity theft, the digital age has brought about a change in the way that crime is being committed. The usage of computers in crime has lead to the emerging field of computer forensics. This course is designed to give students the tools and techniques for investigating crime involving digital evidence.

This course is designed as an introductory course in computer forensics.
Students will first understand the need for computer forensics. Students will learn best practices for general incidence response. The course will then focus on the tools and techniques to perform a full computer forensic investigation.

This course is designed to be an introductory course in information and computer security. This course starts with an analysis of threats to information integrity. Students will then get an introduction to security mechanisms and policies. Students will learn how security infrastructure will integrate with the rest of the business and IT infrastructure, through the use of hands-on projects.