CIS-5005 - Cyber terrorism, Information Warfare, and Critical Infrastructure Protection

Semester Credits: 3 Weeks: 8

In this course, students will examine the basics of Information warfare. the U.S. economy’s infrastructure increasingly relies on its service and high technology sectors. This critical infrastructure is vulnerable to a host of threats. Cyber terrorism is an emerging mode of information warfare exploiting civilian and military systems’ vulnerabilities thereby affecting national and global security. This course examines the dangers of, and U.S. response to, cyber terrorism.