CYBR 641 Cyber Operations Fundamentals

General

• Recognize and understand the underlying fundamental cybersecurity principles, their interrelations and usage to achieve assured operations.
• Recognize and explain how failures in fundamental security design principles can lead to system vulnerabilities that can be exploited as part of an offensive cyber operation.
• Describe how networks work at the various layers of the TCP/IP Protocol suite.
• Analyze network traffic and major protocols that enable communications and data transfer.
• Recognize and apply the phases of a cyber-operations, what each phase entails, who has authorities to conduct each phase, and how operations are assessed after completion.
• Describe common security threats and attacks, their ramifications and how to safeguard against them.
• Describe, evaluate, and operate a defensive network architecture employing multiple layers of protection using technologies appropriate to meet mission security goals.
• Describe the technologies and methods utilized to actively defend systems and networks
• Recognize user interface issues that will affect the implementation of and perception of security mechanisms and the behavioral impacts of various security policies.
• Develop approaches with the right balance of security and user convenience to mitigate user behaviors that undermines system security.
• Demonstrate ethical behavior appropriate to security-related technologies