IX. Graduate Programs
Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence
Courses
| CIS*6510 Cybersecurity and Defense in Depth F [0.50] | |
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| This course provides an overview of concepts and technical measures that are employed to enforce security policies and protect networks and systems from malicious activities. Students will learn how to engineer a secure system and how to secure networks in an ethical manner. | |
| Restriction(s): | Student registered in the MCTI program. |
| Department(s): | School of Computer Science |
| CIS*6520 Advanced Digital Forensics and Incident Response F [0.50] | |
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| This course provides an in-depth understanding of theoretical concepts and practical issues in the field of digital forensics and incident response. Students will develop necessary skills, methodologies, and processes to detect cyber incidents and conduct in-depth computer and network investigation. | |
| Restriction(s): | Student registered in the MCTI program. |
| Department(s): | School of Computer Science |
| CIS*6530 Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversarial Risk Analysis W [0.50] | |
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| This course provides an in-depth understanding of techniques for detecting, responding to, and defeating Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and malware campaigns using artificial intelligence and data mining techniques. Students will identify, extract, and leverage intelligence from different types of cyber threat actors. | |
| Restriction(s): | Student registered in the MCTI program. |
| Department(s): | School of Computer Science |
| CIS*6540 Advanced Penetration Testing and Exploit Development W [0.50] | |
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| This course provides an in-depth understanding of techniques for detecting, responding to, and defeating Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and malware campaigns using artificial intelligence and data mining techniques. Students will identify, extract, and leverage intelligence from different types of cyber threat actors. | |
| Restriction(s): | Student registered in the MCTI program. |
| Department(s): | School of Computer Science |
| CIS*6550 Privacy, Compliance, and Human Aspects of Cybersecurity U [0.50] | |
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| This course provides an in-depth view of the privacy, regulatory, and ethical issues surrounding cybersecurity. It covers methods of mitigating/treating privacy risks associated with emerging technologies that collect, manage, and analyse data. This course also examines data protection regulations and compliance strategies. | |
| Department(s): | School of Computer Science |
| CIS*6560 Cybersecurity and Threat Intelligence Project W-S [1.00] | |
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| Students plan, develop, and write an industry- or faculty-led report and produce required tools, services, and software. Projects should advance knowledge or practice, and address an emerging challenge in cybersecurity, cyber threat intelligence, digital forensics and incident response, cyber threat hunting, or a closely related field. | |
| Restriction(s): | Student registered in the MCTI program. |
| Department(s): | School of Computer Science |
| CIS*6570 Advanced Cryptography and Cryptanalysis U [0.50] | |
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| This course provides an in-depth understanding of modern cryptography, with emphasis on practical applications. Topics covered include classical systems, information theory, symmetrical cryptosystems, block ciphers, stream ciphers, DES, AES, asymmetric cryptosystems, ECC, provable security, keyexchange and management, and authentication and digital signatures, among others. | |
| Department(s): | School of Computer Science |
| CIS*6580 Security Monitoring and Cyber Threat Hunting U [0.50] | |
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| This course provides a comprehensive review of tools, techniques, and procedures for monitoring network events and assets to build a secure network architecture. It trains students in methods for hunting attackers that could bypass designed network defense mechanisms in an enterprise. | |
| Restriction(s): | Student registered in the MCTI program. |
| Department(s): | School of Computer Science |