CY3200 Cyberspace Operations Fundamentals

Nation state militaries, agencies or proxies use cyberspace operations as a component of conflict or warfare for political utility or competitive advantage. It is critical for the warfighter to understand, analyze, and evaluate cyberspace operations and the employment of cyber capabilities to achieve objectives in or through cyberspace. This course examines the fundamentals of cyberspace operations. Topical areas covered in this course include: governance, risk assessment, protecting security assets, cryptography and cryptographic applications (PKI), security models and design, security vulnerabilities, threats, and countermeasures, secure network architecture and securing network terrain, secure communications and network attacks, managing identity and authentication, access control and monitoring, security assessment and testing (penetration testing), managing security operations, and preventing and responding to incidents.

Cross Listed Courses

Cross-listed with NS3200

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

• Gain an in-depth subject matter expertise on advanced information security concepts, analytical frameworks, and the cyber terrain to better enable the warfighter to analyze and evaluate today’s cyber operations environment.
• Understand, apply, and evaluate cyber operations security practices, from a sociotechnical perspective, to better enable the warfighter to respond to and defend against today’s cyber campaigns and incidents.
  
• Understand and apply advanced security methodologies and develop the analytical skills necessary for effective DoD Cyber Operations practices.
• Achieve Certification: Better enable students to pass the CISSP certification exam, demonstrating their proficiency in information security. Taking the CISSP certification exam or passing the exam are not required for this course and are not a course assignment or deliverable.