ITEC 4366 - Computer Security and Disaster Recovery

Credit Hours: 3 Lecture: 3 Lab: 0

Fee Type: Special
Fee ($): 40

This course covers general concepts of information systems security and disaster recovery. Topics covered include physical and logical security threats, security vulnerabilities, risk analysis, types of attacks, access control and user authentication, firewalls, database security, intrusion prevention systems and intrusion detection systems and network security concepts (wired and wireless). This course also provides a managerial perspective on computer security and prepares students for managing information systems security within organizations. Various organizational security policies and mechanisms are discussed. Students are taught to identify critical business systems and functions, data storage and recovery sites and to develop and test a disaster recovery plan.