COMP660 - Enterprise Information and Network Security

Revision 4 · 3 credits · Graduate security foundations and practice

8 Units · 40 Open Tutorials

Welcome to COMP660

This open study guide explores enterprise information and network security through risk, cryptography, identity, network defense, application and data security, architecture, incident response, and governance. It supports the official course and is not a replacement for official materials or assessment.

Prerequisite: COMP604. Graduate admission requirements apply.

Course Units

Unit 1: Security Foundations and Risk

CIA, assets, threats, vulnerabilities, threat modeling, risk, and defense in depth.

Unit 2: Cryptography and Key Management

Encryption, hashes, MACs, public keys, TLS, lifecycle, and failure modes.

Unit 3: Identity and Access Management

Authentication, federation, RBAC, ABAC, privileged access, and reviews.

Unit 4: Network Security

Segmentation, zero trust, DNS, remote access, wireless, and detection.

Unit 5: Application and Data Security

Secure development, APIs, databases, supply chains, and assurance.

Unit 6: Enterprise Security Architecture

Cloud, service boundaries, resilience, continuity, and architecture review.

Unit 7: Monitoring and Incident Response

SIEM, detection, forensics, recovery, threat intelligence, and metrics.

Unit 8: Governance, Risk, and Capstone

Policy, privacy, measurement, case studies, and security assessment.