• IT 6350: Law/Ethics/Privacy in Cybersecurity

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Graduate Certificate or Master of Science in Cybersecurity or Departmental Approval. Explores legal, ethical, and privacy issues as they apply to cybersecurity. Includes the legalities and ethics of hacking, corporate information security and use policies, and the government's role in cybersecurity. Emphasizes the roles and responsibilities of individual cybersecurity practitioners as well as corporate entities, including vulnerability disclosure and correcting software defects. Teaches privacy policies and regulations as they relate to cybersecurity and information systems.
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• IT 6370: Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessment

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Graduate Certificate or Master of Science in Cybersecurity or Departmental Approval. Pre- or Corequisite(s): IT 6300. Explores advanced topics in ethical hacking, penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, and other offensive network and system techniques. Teaches network scanning, target identification, application exploitation, antivirus evasion, physical security, social engineering, phishing, and privilege escalation. Contains hands-on labs providing experience from the perspective of an attacker.
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• IT 6660: Advanced Network Forensics

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Graduate Certificate or Master of Science in Cybersecurity or Departmental Approval. Pre- or Corequisite(s): IT 6300. Provides a standard methodology for conducting digital forensic analysis in a network environment. Teaches the importance of network forensic principles and development of an understanding of the technologies, protocols, laws, regulations, ethics, and procedures for network forensics. Incorporates demonstrations and laboratory exercises covering the identification, acquisition, authentication, preservation, analysis, and reporting of evidence for prosecution purposes.
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• IT 6740: Advanced Network Defense and Countermeasures

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Graduate Certificate or Master of Science in Cybersecurity or Departmental Approval. Pre- or Corequisite(s): IT 6300. Explores advanced topics in network defense, server hardening, vulnerability assessment, and mitigation scanning. Teaches students about network scanning, asset identification, Linux and Windows server hardening, anti-malware tools, intrusion detection, physical security, perimeter security, and cybersecurity awareness training. Contains hands-on labs providing experience from the perspective of a defender.
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• IT 6750: Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Graduate Certificate or Master of Science in Cybersecurity or Departmental Approval. Pre- or Corequisite(s): IT 6300. Explores the analysis tools and techniques for identifying malicious programs and recovering compromised operating systems. Provides a standard methodology for reverse engineering and eradicating malware. Includes setting up isolated malware labs and utilizing a selected set of forensic tools, such as system and network monitoring utilities, disassemblers, and debuggers for analyzing malware characteristics and the impact that malware may have on compromised systems.
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• IT 6760: Case Studies in Cybersecurity

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into Graduate Certificate or Master of Science in Cybersecurity or Departmental Approvall. Pre- or Corequisite(s): IT 6300. Discusses current trends and issues in cybersecurity. Reflects current global events related to cybersecurity. Includes data breaches, cyber warfare, and emerging threats. Emphasizes the changing and transformative nature of cybersecurity threats, including geographical, institutional, and cultural evolution. Provides guest lecturers from industry with perspectives on the state of cybersecurity. Examines real-world examples of the application of cybersecurity principles and requires critical analysis of each case.
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• IT 6770: Cybersecurity Management

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): IT 6300 or Departmental approval. Teaches management skills applicable to cybersecurity. Includes governance models, business continuity, disaster recovery, risk management, organizational security, cybersecurity life cycle management, and interactions between information technology and business units. Focuses on policies, procedures, and guidelines based on industry and government standards to fulfill legal, regulatory, and operational requirements.
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• IT 6780: Secure Coding

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): IT 6300 or departmental approvall. Focuses on fundamentals of secure coding and current topics in application security. Includes the implementation of secure development lifecycle principles, identifying and mitigating issues in existing applications, and common security issues. Covers the most frequently encountered application security risks and how to address each of them. Includes web applications, mobile applications, and traditional desktop applications.
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• IT 6900: Cybersecurity Capstone

  3.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Prerequisite(s): IT 6330, IT 6350, IT 6370, IT 6740, and IT 6770. Provides culmination of cybersecurity in a self-directed research or practical project that showcases student's mastery of cybersecurity topics. Provides an opportunity to conduct research and/or implement systems that incorporate topics from previous courses. Requires students to present their work at the end of the semester.
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• JPNS 1010: Beginning Japanese I LH

  4.00 Credits

  Utah Valley University

  
  Offers an introduction to basic Japanese. Uses various methods of instruction that focus on the development of functional competence in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Provides comprehensive explanations of basic Japanese grammar along with structural practice for building language accuracy.. Lab access fee of $10 applies.
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