Information and Risk Management
CS 589-01
 
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Instructor Dr. Srinivas Mukkamala
Dr. Peter Anselmo &
Dr. Andrew H. Sung
Office Cramer 229
Email srinivas@cs.nmt.edu, sung@cs.nmt.edu, anselmo@nmt.edu
Work (505) 835-6036
Cellular (505) 459-0951
Office Hours
Tuesday 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Thursday 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Class
Location Cramer 203
Timings Tuesday 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Website http://www.cs.nmt.edu/~risk
Course Description
This course is a study of risk analysis, vulnerability assessment, treat identification, and mitigation management. This course structured as a series of lectures and discussions that provide fundamental concepts and principles of risk analysis, information system lifecycle, types of information system vulnerabilities, vulnerability analysis, treat and adversary analysis, vulnerability threat pairs, risk mitigation strategies, current technologies for vulnerability and risk assessments, common vulnerability exposure and common criteria and security testing of vulnerability assessment tools.

Please Note: Student participation is an essential part of the learning process; students will be expected to actively participate in the discussions.
Course Objective
After completion of this course, students will:
Understand and perform risk assessments
Perform vulnerability assessments
Perform threat, adversarial and impact analysis
Knowledge of vulnerabilities to information systems
Perform likelihood analysis
Understand vulnerability threat pairs
Develop and design mitigation strategies
Knowledge on common criteria and applying it to vulnerability assessment tools
Validating the risk assessments
Knowledge on vulnerability taxonomies and reporting vulnerabilities
Common vulnerability exposure
Teaching Assistant(s)
Name Vignesh Venkataramana
Office Cramer 223
Office Hours Thursday 2:00pm to 3:00pm
and by appointment (send email)
Email vigneshv@cs.nmt.edu
Phone (505) 418-5800