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BIT-4624: Cybersecurity Analytics for Business

Description: Application of advanced analytics to cybersecurity in a business setting. Categorization of cyber threats and solutions. Data mining, visualization and machine learning applied to large data sets for anomaly detection, threat prediction, and incident response analysis. Investigation of adversarial machine learning. Selection of appropriate analytics techniques and security platforms. Consideration of business and ethical issues.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: BIT-3674 or CS-4264 or BIT-4614

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 19

Average GPA: 3.51 (rounds to A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 50.25%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.18%

Laura M Hodsden202485.5%9.9%3.1%0.0%1.6%0.0%3.754
Idris Adjerid202453.7%38.7%5.8%0.1%1.3%0.4%3.419
Michael E Flora202474.8%17.3%5.8%1.7%0.4%0.0%3.605
Jason J Jacobs202250.0%30.0%0.0%0.0%20.0%0.0%2.961

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2020Spring 2021Fall 2021Spring 2022Summer I 2022Fall 2022Spring 2023Summer I 2023Fall 2023Spring 2024Summer I 2024Fall 2024Term050% W