National CAE Designated Institution
  • Classroom
  • Online, Instructor-Led

Modeling and simulation fundamentals as applied to cybersecurity including operating system installation and administration for hardware, network architectures, layers, protocols, and configurations. Serves as an introduction to the next two courses in the certificate with topics such as business continuity planning and security management, attack, defense, and cyber weakness at a high level.

Learning Objectives

  1. Explore interdisciplinary issues for conducting research in behavioral aspects of cybersecurity.
  2. Apply appropriate analysis techniques to data to spot insider threats.
  3. Understand cyber hacker motivations and techniques.
  4. Be able to collaborate with interdisciplinary teams toward project completion.
  5. Write research reports/articles.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Program/Project Management and Acquisition
  • Technology R&D
  • Training, Education, and Awareness

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.