CYB 332

Catalog description:

This course discusses human, organizational, and societal aspects of cybersecurity. The human part focuses on protecting individuals’ data and privacy in the context of organizations (i.e., as employees) and personal life, as well as the study of human behavior as it relates to cybersecurity. The organizational part focuses on protecting organizations from cybersecurity threats and managing risk to support the successful accomplishment of the organization’s mission. Finally, the societal part discusses aspects of cybersecurity that broadly impact society as a whole with a focus on various aspects of privacy.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: CYB236

Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to:

1. Students will be able to:
2. Justify the importance of usability within security and privacy.
3. Apply mitigation measures for access control attacks.
4. Identify types of social engineering attacks.
5. Compare and contrast logical and forensic copies and explain how authentication of evidence works.
6. Discuss the importance of social media security and privacy.
7. Justify the importance of risk management and its role in the organization.
8. Describe the common practices and technologies used to safeguard personal privacy.
9. Analyze differential privacy techniques.