This 12-credit certificate program consists of four required courses.
Courses
Course List — Graduate Certificate in Cyber Threat Analytics and Prevention
| 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 |
| 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 cybercrime; methods to uncover, protect, exploit, and document digital evidence; tools, techniques, and procedures to perform computer and cybercrime 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. | 3 credits |
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