2022–2023 CATALOG AND STUDENT HANDBOOK COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 105 CIS2647C Windows Directory Services 60 hours, 4 credits In-depth coverage of the skills necessary to install, configure, and administer Network Directory service. Prerequisite: CIS1710C Administering Windows Server CIS2911 Information Technology Capstone 20 hours, 2 credits The student gets to showcase the culmination of their skills in this capstone course. All areas of their learnings will be tested and applied through a project that is modeled on a real-world scenario. Management skills, project management, resource allocation, policies, and procedures are but a few of the skills that will be applied by the student to successfully complete this course. The intent of this course is to develop a portfolio-worthy project designed to demonstrate the knowledge of the student to improve their career standing within their current position or with a potential employer. Prerequisite: Expected to be the final lower-level core course completed CIS2960C Network Systems Administration Capstone 30 hours, 2 credits This course summarizes key learning throughout the student’s program. Students apply what they’ve learned by solving a real-world programming problem. This problem-solving exercise encompasses timelines, deadlines, team-building, and communication issues. Prerequisite: Expected to be the final lower-level core course completed CIS2990C Software Application Development Capstone 50 hours, 3 credits In this course, students will apply what they have learned throughout the program to a real-world, business-oriented problem. The final project requires students to analyze a business case, design a solution, and implement that solution. This project integrates critical thinking, analysis, planning, and communication skills. Prerequisite: Expected to be the final lower-level core course completed in the student’s final quarter CIS3086 Principles of Cyber Security 30 hours, 3 credits This course introduces students to a detailed examination of a systems-wide perspective for cyber security. Students will be introduced to security strategic planning processes, which includes an examination of policies, procedures, and staffing functions necessary to organize and administrate ongoing security functions in an organization. Prerequisite: ISM2321 Managing Information Security CIS3139 Security Risk Assessment 40 hours, 4 credits This course explores the elements of risk management essential to the business environment. This course will develop the rationale for risk-management strategies and examine the environments in which they operate. Students will learn, analyze, and evaluate approaches to measuring and managing risks in various business environments. Prerequisite: None CIS3240C Security Controls 50 hours, 4 credits This course develops basic understandings behind regular monitoring and reporting of business processes to guarantee data security. Topics include analyzing fundamental business processes, describing objectives behind trust service principles, creating security controls to meet trust service principle objectives, generating control test plans, designing monitoring techniques, and designing reporting techniques. Prerequisites: CNT3003 Advanced Network Security; CNT3126 Advanced Networking CIS3332 Cyber Security Policy Analysis 40 hours, 4 credits This course includes a discussion and assignments on security policies that can be used to help protect and maintain a network, such as acceptable use policy, password policy, email policy, and internet policy. Topics include organizational behavior and crisis management, cyber security policies, organizational change, and cyber security training. Prerequisite: CIS3086 Principles of Cyber Security CIS3417 Regulatory and Legal Compliance 40 hours, 4 credits This course provides an overview of the legal, institutional, and regulatory frameworks that businesses should put in place to address information security. This course identifies the laws, rules, and procedures for all individuals accessing and using an organization’s IT assets and resources. Prerequisite: CIS3086Principles of Cyber Security CIS3550C Information Technology Business Administration 50 hours, 4 credits Students completing the IT Business Administration course should be familiar with several business aspects of the IT organization and how it drives value for the organization at large. Several areas of business are covered from basic accounting principles, rudimentary management topics, and a survey of information technology hierarchy structures. Business ethics, hiring practices, and making sound financial decisions are described. The student will come away with a broad view of how the development and support of organizations co-exist and function within the larger organizational context. Prerequisite: None CIS3574C Organizational Policy 40 hours, 3 credits This course will allow students to learn and strengthen their understanding of organizational policies and frameworks. Students will apply these learned policies in complex business cases by coming up with innovated solutions to support what is required in today’s workplace. Students will expand and collaborate with partners where needed and use these organizational policies to drive and transform the thinking in their organization when change is required. Prerequisite: None CIS4005C IT Operations Management 40 hours, 4 credits The purpose of the IT Operations Management course is to give students a numeric perspective on the IT department. Students will learn how to develop standard operating procedures, create support metrics, and apply these to the proper operation of the IT department. This course will also cover how to properly read and analyze network utilization reports and properly staff various IT departments based on proposed call volume and support needs. Utilization of helpdesk tracking tools and implementation of a tracking system will also be covered to ensure an IT department has the proper foundation to start metrics reporting. Prerequisite: ISM4470C Information Technology Project Management II. CIS4028C Cryptography and Traffic Analysis 60 hours, 4 credit This course covers how cryptanalysis theory can be used to address confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) in an enterprise environment. This course also covers how enterprise organizations can decipher internal data communications for traffic analysis and reporting. Topics include private and public key cryptography, digital signatures, secret sharing, security protocols, formal methods for analyzing network security, electronic mail security, firewalls, intrusion detection, internet privacy, and public key infrastructures. Prerequisite: None CIS4039 Auditing Information Technology Infrastructure 40 hours, 4 credits This course covers the principles, approaches, and methodology in auditing information systems to ensure the processes and procedures are in compliance with pertinent laws and regulatory provisions, especially in the context of cyber security. Prerequisite: None CIS4162C Enterprise Storage Management 60 hours, 4 credits This course will cover various methods of data management. Students will learn to design and implement Storage Area Networks, Disk Arrays, and data backup. Students will cover topics such as data de-duplication, cloud backup, and managing both physical and virtual data backup environments. Topics also covered are maintaining both on-site and off-site data backups and creating a backup policy. Prerequisite: CNT3126 Advanced Networking CIS4189C Risk Management and Business Continuity 50 hours, 4 credits This course covers how to properly analyze risks within an IT department. Topics covered are disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning, and how to create risk analysis documents for all applications assessing their long-term viability and backup solutions. Students will also perform business impact analysis to analyze key areas that are most vulnerable when a risk-based situation has occurred. Students will develop a disaster recovery plan and learn how to process and implement each phase of the plan they have developed. Prerequisite: None CIS4222C Managing Security Awareness 50 hours, 4 credits This course identifies key components of a security awareness program including continuous improvement strategies. This includes three major steps in the development of an IT security awareness and training program. Topics include designing the program, developing awareness strategies and training material, and implementing the security awareness program. Prerequisite: None CIS4385C Computer Forensics 40 hours, 3 credits This course examines computer literacy and criminal investigation legal issues regarding seizure and chain of custody, and technical issues in acquiring computer evidence. Popular file systems are examined. Reporting issues in the legal system are discussed. Prerequisite: CIS4028C Cryptography and Traffic Analysis ALL CONTENT IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE BY ADDENDUM
