This 12-credit certificate program consists of four required courses.
Course List - Graduate Certificate in Cyber Threat Analytics and Prevention
Required Courses (6 credits)
Title
Abbreviation
Description
Credits
Web Security and Privacy
INSC 561
A web-centric look at the latest techniques and practices in computer security as they apply to the internet.
3 credits
Network Management and Security
IST 554
Essential skills and knowledge for effectively utilizing networks and Internet technologies to facilitate, manage and secure data communications and applications.
3 credits
Elective Courses (6 credits)
Title
Abbreviation
Description
Credits
Data Visualization
DAAN 871
This course provides a foundation in the principles, concepts, techniques, and tools for visualizing large data sets.
3 credits
Network and Predictive Analytics for Socio-Technical Systems
INSC 846
This course will employ several methods and measures from the area of social network analysis to study the interrelatedness of cyber-social and cyber-technical aspects of an organization or the society as a whole to detect and capture the dynamic patterns of group membership and structure. This type of analysis can be useful in uncovering potential threats and attacks and predicting criminal behavior and evolution of criminal networks.
3 credits
Computer and Cyber Forensics
IST 454
Fundamental issues and concepts of computer forensics; aspects of computer and cyber crime; methods to uncover, protect, exploit, and document digital evidence; tools, techniques, and procedure to perform computer and cyber crime investigation.
3 credits
Cybersecurity Analytics
IST 820
This course provides theoretical and applied foundations of fundamentals of network security, data sources, data collection techniques and tools, cybersecurity analytics infrastructure, machine learning and data mining, network forensics, anomaly and malware detection, security data visualization, and security dashboard design and implementation.