May 15, 2025  
2024-2025 CNM Catalog, Volume 56 
    
2024-2025 CNM Catalog, Volume 56 [The CNM Academic Year includes Fall, Spring, Summer Terms]

CIS 2853 - Cyber Defense Basics

3 credit hour(s)
Prerequisite: CIS 1680  + (CIS 1250  or CIS 1275  or CSCI 1151  or CSCI 1152 )
Pre- or corequisite: CIS 2670  
This course will provide fundamental skills needed to analyze the internal and external security threats against a computer network. Students will learn how to evaluate network and internet security issues and design, and how to implement successful security policies and firewall strategies to defend against system and network vulnerabilities.

Theory Hours: 45
Lab Hours: 15