BTM 661 Cybersecurity Risk Mitigation Techniques

Explores the current software and hardware products available to protect enterprise assets. Covered in this course are the methods used to ensure both secure and authenticated transmissions of proprietary corporate information across vulnerable networks. Topics will include public-key-infrastructure (PKI), digital signatures, certificate authorities, and encryption standards such as SSL, IPSEC, SET, DES, S/MIME, SHTTP. In addition, students examine techniques and software used for intrusion detection, password attacks, denial of service, spoofing, and their respective countermeasures.