CIS 6720

This course offers an overview of privacy legislation and ethical theories/principles and their applications. The course also examines strategy standards and best practices for privacy and ethical risk assessment, mitigation, compliance, and governance. Moreover, the course introduces state of the art security architecture, incident detection, containment and eradication and strategies to integrate different security technologies to achieve organization objectives. In addition, it provides a comprehensive review of information security governance framework and supporting processes to manage information risk to an acceptable level. It then looks at methods to build and maintain an information security program that identifies, manages and protects the organization's assets. [Offering(s): Not offered through Distance Education][Department(s): School of Computer Science]