TECH 179 - Cyber Security System Management
(Cyberdefense)

Fall 2026 Sam Bowne

Sections

Section 01 Lecture Mon and Wed 9:00 - 9:50 am SCI258
Section 11 Lab: Mon 10:00 am - 12:45 pm ENG103
Section 12 Lab: Wed 10:00 am - 12:45 pm ENG103

Canvas
Sect 2, 28524: Mon & Weds & 12:00-1:15 pm in ENG103 Canvas

Syllabus (Revised)
Schedule (Rev April 14)
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FORTINET Training

Last day to add: Tue, Feb 17, 2026

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Textbook

Applied Incident Response, First Edition by by Steve Anson
Publisher: Wiley (January 14, 2020)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, LLC
ASIN: B083XF121Z
ISBN-13: 978-1119560319
Kindle edition: $28, Paper edition: $26 (prices I saw on 5-5-26 at Amazon)
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Quizzes

The quizzes are multiple-choice, online, and open-book. However, you may not ask other people to help you during the quizzes. You will need to study the textbook chapter before the lecture covering it, and take the quiz before that class. Each quiz is due 30 min. before class. Each quiz has 5 questions, you have ten minutes to take it, and you can make two attempts. If you take the quiz twice, the higher score counts.
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Schedule
Date	Assignment Due	Topic

Wed 8-19		Class Intro

Mon 8-24	Quiz 1 due	1.. The Threat Landscape
Wed 8-26

Mon 8-31	Quiz 2 due	2. Incident Readiness
Wed 9-2	IR 410 Flags 1-2 due

Mon 9-7		*No Class--Labor Day*
Wed 9-9

Mon 9-14	Quiz 3 due	3. Remote Triage
Wed 9-16	IR 410 Flags 3-5 due

Mon 9-21	Quiz 4 due	4. Remote Triage Tools
Wed 9-23	IR 100 due

Mon 9-28	Quiz 5 due	5. Acquiring Memory
Wed 9-30	IR 371 due

Mon 10-5	Quiz 6 due	6. Disk Imaging
Wed 10-7	IR 372 due

Mon 10-12	Quiz 7 due	7. Network Security Monitoring
Wed 10-14	IR 350 due

Mon 10-19	Quiz 8 due	8. Event Log Analysis
Wed 10-21	IR 400 due

Mon 10-26	Quiz 9 due	9. Memory Analysis
Wed 10-28	BoTS Flags 1.1-1.3 due

Mon 11-2	Quiz 10 due	10. Malware Analysis
Wed 11-4	BoTS Flags 1.4-1.5 due

Mon 11-9	Quiz 11 due	11. Disk Forensics
Wed 11-11	BoTS Flags 2.1-2.2 due	*No Class--Veteran's Day*

Mon 11-16	Quiz 12 due	12. Lateral Movement Analysis
Wed 11-18	BoTS Flags 2.3-2.4 due

Mon 11-23	Quiz 13 due	13. Continuous Improvement
Wed 11-25		*No Class--Non-Instructional Day*

Mon 11-30	Quiz 14 due	14. Proactive Activities
Wed 12-2

Mon 12-7		Last day to turn in material Last class: no new material

Mon 12-14		Final Exam 8:30-10:30 AM

Lectures
Grading Policy (pdf) Syllabus (pdf) 1. The Threat Landscape 2. Incident Readiness 3. Remote Triage 4. Remote Triage Tools 5. Acquiring Memory 6. Disk Imaging 7. Network Security Monitoring 8. Event Log Analysis 9. Memory Analysis 10. Malware Analysis 11. Disk Forensice 12. Lateral Movement Analysis 13. Continuous Improvement 14. Proactive Activities

Hands-On Labs
Firewall Setup via CLI In END 490, I used a laptop and two cables from the Cisco boxes: A blue console-to-USB cable A yellow Ethernet cable, from port 1 on the firewall to the laptop.

Last revised 5-5-26 2:39 pm

TECH 179 - Cyber Security System Management (Cyberdefense)