IA 603. Analytical Methodologies and Tools for Cyber Threats

3.00

Using case studies, this course provides an overview of cyber methodologies based on industry best practices for analyzing cyber threats, assessing an organization’s cyber posture and conducting proactive analysis of cyber adversaries to support network defense and decision making. By applying these cyber methodologies, students will have a systematic, threat-driven approach for dealing with the complexity, uncertainty and ambiguous cyber domain. With the increasing volume of diverse, ambiguous and contradictory data sources, students must systematically consider a range of alternative hypotheses and outcomes. These methodologies, developed in the business and intelligence communities, will allow students to explore problems from different perspectives. Methodologies are organized into categories based on their purposes: diagnostic, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive.