Designing and Building a Cybersecurity Program

Summer 2024 > Computer Related > MSIT.5450 > 031

Course No: MSIT.5450-031; SIS Class Nbr: 1238; SIS Term: 3340
Course Status: Registration Closed

Course Description

This course focuses on best practices for designing and building a comprehensive Cybersecurity Program based on the NIST Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity ("The Framework"). The Framework was issued on February 12, 2014, as directed by President Obama in Executive Order 13636. This framework provides guidance for reducing cybersecurity risk for organizations, and this course will examine its basic tenets of: "Cybersecurity Fundamentals", techniques applied to "Building a Controls Factory", "Cybersecurity Programs" "Establishing Cybersecurity Centers of Expertise" and "The Cybersecurity Program Implementation Roadmap".

Prerequisites, Notes & Instructor

When Offered & Tuition

  • Online Course
  • 2024 Summer: May 13 to Aug 04
  • Course Level: Graduate
  • Tuition: $1800
  • Note: There is a $30 per semester registration fee for credit courses.

Related Programs: M.S. in Information Technology, M.S. in Security Studies: Critical Infrastructure Protection Concentration, M.S. in Security Studies: Cybersecurity Concentration, M.A. in Security Studies: Homeland Defense Concentration

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