ITS-CEC Cybersecurity Emerging Challenges

Scope:

1. The emerging challenges in a computing-based discipline
   involving technology, people, information, and processes to
   enable assured operations and to support the growing need for
   forensic activities in a contest, adversarial environment.
2. Security considerations of cloud computing
3. Digital forensics including the recovery and investigation of
   material found in digital devices, often in relation to computer
   crime.
4. Security implications for information technologies enabled and
   controlled by software and influenced by the supply chain.

Competencies:

1. Perform malware analysis on a computer system and conduct a
   forensic analysis on a local network, on stored data within a
   system as well as mobile devices for an enterprise environment.
   (Malware and forensic analysis)
2. Apply standards, procedures, and applications used to protect
   the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and
   information system within a cloud computing setting. (System
   integrity)
3. Analyze human facets that enable the exploitation of
   computing-based systems. (Human dynamics)
4. Design security procedures, based on cybersecurity principles,
   regarding privacy issues for a computing-based system that
   address security challenges within a computing environment
   (e.g. internet of things). (Security procedures)

Subdomains and Core Hour allocation

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