CIS 320 - Advanced Network Defense

5 Credits

This course expands on Network Defense to cover advanced topics in Network Security Operations. Students build systems based on current technologies for network monitoring and alerting, management, authentication and authorization, and automation.

Pre-requisite(s) CIS 150 and CIS 160 min 2.0
Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS - CIS
FeesAcademic Technology Fee

Quarters Typically Offered
Winter Evening

Designed to Serve Students enrolled in CIS programs and industry professionals with computing experience.
Active Date 20250401T11:43:38

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Contact Hours: Lecture 44 Lab 22
Total Contact Hours 66
Degree Distributions:

ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes

Course Outline

Considerations for secure network design
Review common security threats to networks and to network hosts
Centralized tooling
1. Log aggregation and analysis
2. Network management
3. Authentication and authorization
4. Security Operations
Network filtering and threat management
Virtualization and cloud infrastructure

Student Learning Outcomes
Create a network design that covers the major components of network security.

Research and report on common security threats and emerging topics in network defense.

Implement secure routing, packet inspection, and authorization protocols.

Implement centralized logging and network management.

Design and implement security controls for modern networks and identities.