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CIT 282 - Advanced Cybersecurity Topics


Credits: 3
3 Lecture Hours

Prerequisites: CIT 185  

 
Description
This course covers advanced and emerging topics in Cybersecurity. The current emphasis in the course is on mobile device security and cloud security.


Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:

  1. Describe mobile device architectures and files systems.
  2. Describe security vulnerabilities in mobile phones and tablets.
  3. Describe security threats and attacks against mobile devices.
  4. Evaluate different mobile device security models.
  5. Identify mobile device system and data analysis tools.
  6. Perform mobile device system and data analysis.
  7. Describe solutions to mitigate lost mobile devices.
  8. Evaluate security limitations of the virtualization technology.
  9. Describe security vulnerabilities in cloud computing.
  10. Evaluate security policies, agreements and safeguards in cloud environments.
Listed Topics
  1. Mobile device architectures and files systems
  2. Security vulnerabilities in mobile phones and tablets
  3. Security threats and attacks against mobile devices
  4. Mobile device security models
  5. Mobile device system and data analysis tools
  6. Hands-on work on mobile device system and data analysis
  7. Mitigations of lost mobile devices
  8. Security limitations of virtualization
  9. Security vulnerabilities in cloud computing
  10. Security policies, agreements and safeguards in cloud environments
Reference Materials
Appropriate materials, references, and software tools will be used.
Approved By: Bullock, Quintin Date Approved: 11/04/2014


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