Course Overview
This course will feature a comprehensive overview of concepts and tools essential to cybersecurity for IT professionals. Students will learn to view information as an asset to the organization, discover types of cybersecurity attacks, what threat actors are, the various roles of a cyber professional, and the beginnings of designing a cybersecurity program. Students will also identify different threats to information and the infrastructure and operators that support it. This course will also cover the risk management practices and principles that pertain to the cyber domain, as well as risk mitigation strategies, risk calculation, and communication and training for a cybersecurity program.