MSS Course Descriptions
Course Title: ECCU 500 Managing Secure Network Systems
Purpose: This class is designed to provide the fundamental skills needed to analyze the internal and external security threats against a network, and to implement security mechanisms to protect an organization’s information. The course helps to evaluate network and internet security issues and provides security solutions such as designing a security policy, troubleshooting networks, and digital signatures.
Course Title: ECCU 501 Ethical Hacking & Countermeasures
Purpose: This class is designed to provide students an insight into current security scenarios and increasing hacking attempts on various information systems. The goal of ethical hacking and countermeasures is to help organizations take preemptive measures against malicious attacks by attacking the system themselves staying within legal limits.
Course Title: ECCU 502 Investigating Network Intrusions and Computer Forensics
Purpose: This class is designed to equip students with necessary skills required to identify computer crime; gather and preserve digital evidence by following set of standards and procedures that hold up in a court of law; and assist attorneys in legal proceedings to prosecute criminals involved in cases where one or many computers were used as part of the crime.
Course Title: ECCU 503 Security Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment
Purpose: Through groundbreaking penetration testing methods and techniques, Security Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment class helps students perform the intensive assessments required to effectively identify and mitigate risks to the security of the infrastructure.
Course Title: ECCU 504 Foundations of Organizational Behavior for the Technology Practitioner
Purpose: This course deals with organizational behavior and teaches the basic facets of organizational theory and the defining requisite skills. The student learns who s/he is as an individual worker and how s/he fits into the organizational structure. The course explores elements of effective communication, team building/leading, ethics, and project management as seen through the organizational lens. Using a case study the student draws the organizational structure described and charts the behavioral consequences displayed by the characters of the study. Through this exercise students can clearly see how the behaviors impinge upon the structure in a variety of ways.
Book Requirements:
- Glen, Paul. Leading Geeks: how to manage and lead people who deliver technology. Jossey Bass. c2003. ISBN: 0-7879-6148-5.
- Robbins, Stephen P. & DeCenzo, David A. Supervision Today, 5th ed. Prentice Hall. c2007. ISBN: 0-13-172609-9
Course Title: ECU 505 Intro to Research and Writing for the IT Practitioner
Purpose:
Book Requirements:
- Leedy, Paul D. & Ormrod, Jeanne Ellis. Practical Research: Planning and design, 9th ed. Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall. c2005. ISBN: 0-13-715242-6
Course Title: ECU 506 Conducting Penetration and Security Tests
Purpose: This course focuses on the mastery of the international standard for penetration testing. Topics include customers and legal agreements, penetration testing planning and scheduling, information gathering, external and internal network penetration testing, router penetration testing, firewalls penetration testing, intrusion detection system penetration testing, wireless networks penetration testing; password cracking penetration testing, social engineering penetration testing, PDA and cell phone penetration testing, and penetration testing report and documentation writing.
Course Title: ECU 507 Linux Networking and Security
Purpose: This course focuses on configuring a secure Linux network using command line and graphical utilities. Emphasis is placed on file sharing technologies such as the Network File System, NetWare’s NCP file sharing, and File Transfer Protocol. Additional topics include making data secure, user security, file security, and network intrusion detection. Students will be required to take on the role of problem solvers and apply the concepts presented to situations that might occur in a work environment.
Course Title: ECU 509 Securing Wireless Networks
Purpose: This course focuses on the various methods of securing wireless networks including authentication, authorization and encryption. Topics include radio frequency communications, infrared, Bluetooth, low-speed wireless local area networks, high-speed WLANs and WLAN Security, digital cellular telephone, fixed wireless, and wireless communications in business.
Course Title: ECU 510 Secure Programming
Purpose: This class is designed to provide students an insight of current security scenario and increasing hacking attempts on various information systems. The goal of the ethical hacking and countermeasures is to help the organizations take preemptive measures against malicious attacks by attacking the system themselves staying within legal limits.
Course Title: ECU 511 Global Business Leadership
Purpose: This course is designed to provide fundamental skills needed to understand global leadership concepts such as developing technological savvy, appreciating diversity, building partnerships, creating shared vision, maintaining a competitive advantage, integrity and leading for change. This is a study of current and historical leadership theories with emphasis on viewing the leadership function in the context of global organizational behavior and organizational designs. There are no prerequisites, and there will be a research paper due at the end of the course.
Book Requirements:
- Goldsmith, Marshall…[et. al.]. Global leadership: the next generation. Pearson Education, Inc. c2003. ISBN: 0131402439
Course Title: ECU 512 Managing Organizational Change and Behavior
Purpose: This course is designed to provide knowledge of organizational changes beyond (BCP). Business Continuity Planning is the process of protecting organizations from the deleterious effects on their IT missions that can result from outages in information systems. Non-computer support structures and systems may not be recognized and, therefore, not brought into the protection definition process. This course goes into these systems and provides the IT manager with knowledge about the general processes of change and the behaviors that accompany an organization. Planning of this kind will prevent the possibility of forming a myopic view of corporate functions.
Book Requirements:
- Andre, Rae. Organizational Behavior. Prentice Hall. c2008. ISBN: 13: 978-0-13-185495-6 (chapter 18 only from this book).
- Bosworth, Seymour & Kabay, M.E. Computer Security Handbook, 4th Ed. Wiley C Pub. c2002. ISBN: 0-471-41258-9. (chapters 42 and 43 only)
- Lacey, David. Managing the Human Factor in Information Security: How to win over staff and influence business managers. John Wiley & Sons. c2009. ISBN: 978-0-470-72199-5 (pbk) (chapter 5 only from this book)
- Robbins, Stephen P. & DeCenzo, David A. Supervision Today, 5th ed. Prentice Hall. c2007. ISBN: 0-13-172609-9 (chapter 15 only from this book).
Course Title: ECU 513 Disaster Recovery
Purpose: This course is designed to provide fundamental skills needed to understand the methods in identifying vulnerabilities and taking appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure or risks for an organization. It also provides the networking professional with a foundation in disaster recovery principles, including preparation of a disaster recovery plan, assessment of risks in the enterprise, development of policies, procedures, understanding of the roles and relationships of various members of an organization, implementation of the plan, disaster recovery and virtualization techniques. This course takes an enterprise-wide approach to develop a disaster recovery plan. Students will learn how to create a secure network by putting policies and procedures in place, and how to restore a network in the event of a disaster. Students are also exposed to various virtualization tools and techniques that form an important part while charting the disaster recovery solution.
Course Title: ECU 514 Quantum Leadership
Purpose: This course encompasses an extensive research project about cross-cultural differences in leadership conducted by a group of researchers in 62 countries. It will lay a foundation of understanding the process of leadership. This study describes the roles, functions and impact of global leadership concepts. The speed at which leadership must take to be at the cutting edge is provided by many team exercises. Research and views into how most cultures respond to this area of management are provided.
Book Requirements:
- Nahavandi, Afsaneh. The Art and Science of Leadership, 5th ed. Pearson/Prentice Hall. c2009. ISBN: 13: 978-0-13-604408-6
Course Title: ECU 515 Project Management in IT Security
Purpose: This class is designed to provide students with the knowledge of how to manage IT security projects in order to enhance the success rate for both organizations as well as IT managers. It acts as an operational framework for users who design their own IT security project plan. The goal of PMITS is to help the students implement their IT project management skills by providing a roadmap for implementing the IT security in their organizations. It standardizes the knowledge base for business professionals by incorporating the best practices and legal standards related to corporate IT security.
Course Title: ECU 516 The Hacker Mind: Profiling the IT Criminal
Purpose: Cyber space has increased human communication, connectivity, creativity, capacity and crime by leaps and bounds in the last decades. For all of the positive aspects it offers, it offers as many negative aspects. Those negative aspects are explored and developed by everyone from the high school challenge hacker to the international terrorist. Businesses, governmental agencies, militaries, and organizations of every kind are threatened by the IT criminal. This course will survey the spectrum of psychological attributes which may make up the profile of the IT criminal. The (IS) manager will be closer to being able to look at the habits and behaviors of the cyber criminal.
Book Requirements:
- Chiesa, Raoul & Ducci, Stefania. Profiling Hackers: The science of criminal profiling as applied to the world of hacking. CRC Press. c2009. ISBN: 13: 978-1-4200-8693-5 (pbk)
- Lacey, David. Managing the Human Factor in Information Security: How to win over staff and influence business managers. John Wiley & Sons. c2009. ISBN: 978-0-470-72199-5 (pbk)
Course Title: ECU 517 Cyber Law
Purpose: This course is designed to provide fundamental skills needed to understand Cyber Law concepts such as trademark, copyright, patents, digital rights, computer crimes, privacy issues, hacking and prosecution etc. Given the rapid changes in technology, and the corresponding changes in crime and the law, the course will regularly include discussions of current events. There are no prerequisites, and there will be a final examination.