CSOL500

Professional & Continuing Educ

CSOL

500

This course will feature a comprehensive overview of concepts and tools essential to the cybersecurity professional and review various types of cybersecurity techniques. The student will learn what cybersecurity means and what it protects as well as future trends and identifying the roles leaders can play in enhancing, supporting, and promoting cybersecurity in organizations. The course will outline a taxonomy of modern cyber terminology. This course will also set the stage for the program by explaining and instilling the “Business of Cyber” and "Cyber Culture" as a cybersecurity professional. The student will learn to view information as an asset to the organization, learn types of cybersecurity attacks, what are threat actors and threat vectors, the various roles of a cyber-professional, and the beginnings of designing a cybersecurity program. The student will also identify different types of threats to information and to the infrastructure and the operations that support it.