A student's time is important. We at NUCIA realize this and have composed an array of courses that approach all domains of Information Assurance (IA).

Beginning with the understanding of the Foundations of Information Assurance, a student gradually acquires the knowledge base needed for the IA profession.

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CSC1-3550 Communications Networks

(3 credit hours) Introduction to digital and analog data communication hardware, software and applications. Existing technologies and physical hardware for local and wide area networks. Transmission links, topological design, network protocols, addressing, routing and flow control. The ISO Open Systems Interconnect model. Prereq: CSCI 2710 and CSCI 2720; OR CSCI 2710 and CSCI 3710; OR CSCI 2730; AND CSCI 3320/8325 (Cross-listed with CSCI-8555.)

INSTRUCTORS: KEN DICK, JONG-HOON YOUN

CIST-3600 Information Security and Policy

(3 credit hours) This course provides an introduction to the fundamental principles and topics of Information Security. The principles are laid out in such a way that computer professionals not only learn about principles; they learn them in a logical order that provides a framework for developing and performing the security tasks. The course will address hardware, software, processes, communications, applications, and policies and procedures relative to information security in the organization. This course has a zero credit hour laboratory component. Prereq: CIST 3100; and ISQA 3400 or CSCI 3550 which may be taken concurrently.

INSTRUCTOR: LEAH PIETRON

CIST-4360 Foundations of Information Assurance

(3 credit hours) Contemporary issues in computer security, including sources for computer security threats and appropriate reactions; basic encryption and decryption; secure encryption systems; program security, trusted operating systems; database security, network and distributed systems security, administering security; legal and ethical issues. Prereq: CSCI 3320/8325. (Cross-listed with CSCI-8366.)

INSTRUCTOR: BLAINE BURNHAM

CIST-4370 Security Administration

(3 credit hours) The course provides students with hands on experience in the field of security administration. The student will learn how a security professional fulfills various Information Assurance requirements using the Linux operating system. Topics include examination of vulnerabilities; procedures and tools for security assessment; development of security policies, procedures and standards; firewalls, logging and audit tools, hardening scripts as well as other tools and techniques used to implement secure computing environments. Prereq: CSCI 3320 Data Structures or ISQA 3300 File Structures

INSTRUCTOR: STEVE NUGEN

CIST-4540 Computer Security Management

(3 credit hours) The purpose of this course is to integrate concepts and techniques from security assessment, risk mitigation, disaster planning, and auditing to identify, understand, and propose solutions to problems of computer security and security administration. Prereq: CIST4360 or permission of the instructor.

INSTRUCTOR: DWIGHT HAWORTH

CSCI-4380 Computer and Network Forensics

(3 credit hours) Computer forensics involves the preservation, identification, extraction and documentation of computer evidence stored on a computer. This course takes a technical, legal and practical approach to the study and practice of computer forensics. Topics include: the legal and ethical implications; duplication and data recovery; cryptography; steganography; network forensics and surveillance; and tools and techniques for investigating computer intrusions. Prereq: CSCI3320

INSTRUCTOR: STEVE NUGEN

CSCI-8220 Telecommunications Management

(3 credit hours) This course will focus on the management required to operate today's complex telecommunications networks. The course will be based on the standards that are currently in place as well as examining the future directions. The student, upon the successful completion of this course, will have: an operational knowledge of the components of complex telecommunications networks, the management structures and computer systems needed to maintain that network, and the security solutions used to protect that network. Prereq: Acceptance into the Graduate program of CSCI or MIS or by permission of the instructor. Not open to nondegree students. (Cross-listed with ISQA-8230.)

INSTRUCTOR: KEN DICK

CSCI-8410 Distributed System and Network Security

(3 credit hours) This course is a detailed analysis of information security in the context of distributed systems and networks. Topics include: threats developed in the distributed systems and networks; security policies and mechanisms; the integration of secure services include secure mail, web services, and wireless; and ways to mitigate threat, including firewalls and intrusion detection systems. Prereq: CSCI 8366 or equivalent(s); or instructor permission. Not open to nondegree students.

INSTRUCTOR: KEN DICK

CSCI-8420 Secure Information Systems Assurance

(3 credit hours) The course will investigate the choices among security features and secure system architecture options; the range of secure system specification and design options; the Capability Maturity Model, the Trusted Software Development Methodology; evaluation of security technology; the formal product evaluation of security technology and the relationship between them to include the assorted criteria starting with the Orange Book and the TPEP process culminating with Common Criteria and the NIAP. Prereq: CSCI 8366 or equivalent; or permission of instructor. Not open to nondegree students.

CSCI-8430 Trusted System Design, Analysis and Development

(3 credit hours) This course examines in detail: the principles of a security architecture, access control, policy and the threat of malicious code; the considerations of trusted system implementation to include hardware security mechanisms, security models, security kernels, and architectural alternatives; the related assurance measures associated with trusted systems to include documentation, formal specification and verification, and testing, and approaches that extend the trusted system, into applications and databases and into networks and distributed systems. Prereq: CSCI 8366 or equivalents, or instructor permission. Not open to nondegree students.

INSTRUCTOR: VICTOR WINTER

CSCI-8440 Secure Systems Engineering

(3 credit hours) Secure Systems Engineering is the capstone course of the information assurance concentration. This course will bring together and focus the various topics presented in the prerequisite classes on the development of system level security solutions. The objective of the course is to equip the student with a global view of the process of designing and developing and fielding secure information systems. Prereq: CSCI 8366, 8410, 8420 and 8430

INSTRUCTOR: BILL MAHONEY, STEVE NUGEN

ISQA-4580 Strategic Planning for Information Assurance

(3 credit hours) The purpose course is to prepare the student for managing information security at the organizational level. This course will combine concepts from strategic management, decision science, and risk analysis to prepare the student to integrate security issues into an organizational strategic planning process. Prereq: CIST 3600 and CIST 3110.

ISQA-8530 E-Commerce Security

(3 credit hours) The course will integrate concepts, principles, and technologies from business, telecommunications, and computer science to identify, understand, and propose solutions to the security threats to e-commerce. Prereq: CIST 3100 and ISQA 8310. Not open to nondegree students.

ISQA-8546 Computer Security Management

(3 credit hours) The purpose of this course is to integrate concepts and techniques from security assessment, risk mitigation, disaster planning, and auditing to identify, understand, and propose solutions to problems of computer security and security administration. Prereq: CIST 4360 or permission of the instructor. (Cross-listed with CIST-4540.)

INSTRUCTOR: DWIGHT HAWORTH

ISQA-8560 Information Warfare and Security

(3 credit hours) This course will study the nature of information warfare, including computer crime and information terrorism, as it relates to international, national, economic, organizational, and personal security. Information warfare policy and ethical issues will be examined. Prereq: CIST 3100 or BSAD 8030, or permission of instructor required.

INSTRUCTOR: DWIGHT HAWORTH

ISQA-8570 Information Security Policy and Ethics

(3 credit hours) The course will cover the development and need for information security policies, issues regarding privacy, and the application of computer ethics. Prereq: CIST 3100 or BSAD 8030, and ISQA 8040, or permission of instructor.

INSTRUCTOR: LEAH PIETRON

ISQA 8580 - Security Risk Management and Assessment

(3 credit hours) The purpose of this course is to prepare the student for managing information security at the organizational level. This course will combine concepts from strategic management, decision science and risk analysis to prepare the student to integrate security issues into an organizational strategic planning process.

INSTRUCTOR: LEAH PIETRON