This course will discuss cybersecurity defensive measures and their application to protecting computing endpoints. The course will focus on studying, analyzing, and understanding vulnerabilities and threats along with the preventative and detective controls necessary to mitigate risk. Defensive endpoint-based controls will be explored and applied with hands-on exercises.

This course is designed to give students a foundation in the theories and practice relating to web application security. The course will introduce students to the concepts associated with deploying and securing a typical HTTP environment as well as defensive techniques they may employ.

The importance of effective security policies and procedures coupled with experience and practice is emphasized and reinforced through research and practical assignments. Organization and management of security discipline and response to threats is studied. Case studies of effective and failed security planning and implementation will be examined and analyzed. The issues influencing proper and appropriate planning for security and response to attacks will be studied.