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Enterprise Security Courses (Certificate Approval Expected Fall 2027)

Enterprise Elective Courses

All students wishing to complete the Enterprise Focus Area will complete 6 courses (18 credits) from list below:

This course provides first-hand, practical experience in one or more foreign countries. Students will learn about economic, cultural, social, and political structures that influence managerial practices and relationships. Students will apply what they have learned in other graduate-level courses from their program of study in a project connected with a global or non-USA-based organization or industry. This course requires the student to participate in a Marilyn Davies College of Business-sponsored study tour of a selected foreign country/region.



Survey of the field of human resources management with emphasis on security management. Topics include human resources planning, recruiting and selection, performance appraisal, compensation and reward systems, training and development, and employee relations. Regulatory and legal aspects of human resources management will be integrated throughout the course.

This course is an introduction to managerial decision making from the perspective of the security professional. Students will learn how to apply qualitative and quantitative decision models and techniques to solve managerial decision problems. Topics will include behavioral and organizational aspects of decision making, qualitative decision models, spreadsheet decision modeling, descriptive statistical analysis, forecasting models, and decision making under risk and uncertainty.

This course bridges the gap between national security initiatives and the operational dynamics of the intelligence community. Students will explore how national security initiatives, especially at the enterprise, benefit from Intelligence operations.

Students explore both the theoretical fundamentals of incident management and the strategies for responding effectively.  The differences between expected and unexpected, as well as natural and man-made disasters are identified and clarified, along with the efficient use of available resources..
This course focuses on the development and management of a corporate investigation team that is part of a complete enterprise security organization. Topics include: Mandated investigations, jurisdiction issues, legal exposure and ethical issues.

Examines the development and implementation of global security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures to insure ongoing maintenance of security. Special emphasis on changes in economics, geopolitics, organization design, and technology and how each relates to potential threats and risks to an organization.

This course is a survey of major security threats and methods for mitigating those threats in contemporary settings. The course activities will include review and analysis of recent security threats and/or events and identification of available strategies to mitigate the risk posed by those threats. Students will learn how to analyze a wide variety of threat scenarios, identify vulnerabilities, and determine which risk mitigation strategies work best for a given situation; and they will learn how threats and strategies for mitigating them are evolving over time.

This course deals with problem solving under the supervision of faculty members. The student will design and complete an analytical examination of a security problem and a set of actionable recommendations designed to solve the problem(s) and or mitigate the impact. The student will present their analysis and recommendations in both a recorded presentation and a comprehensive written document

This course focuses on the challenges of designing a comprehensive, risk based organizational protection program that takes advantage of all forms of protections, electronics and tactics available to the security professional.

This course provides students the opportunity to experience and practice Security Management concepts learned in class in real world business operations. Students will acquire or improve their competency in several aspects of Security Management. Students actively engage in security projects within an organization, and feedback received from the employer will form part of the overall learning experience.

This course focuses on the challenges of designing a comprehensive, risk based organizational protection program that takes advantage of all forms of protections, electronics and tactics available to the security professional.

 

The Master of Security Management degree (Enterprise) requires satisfactory completion of 36 credit hours offered by the Marilyn Davies College of Business. This includes 18 credits above and 18 from Core Courses below:

Core Courses

Leadership, motivation, and communication for executives in security organizations. Topics include one’s own managerial and leadership skills, interpersonal skills, and leading organizational change.

This course merges communication theory and pragmatic application with modern crises, issues management, and real-world experiences. All inquiry-based activities lead to important learning through independent and collaborative work, research, investigations, discussions, and presentations.

The management of the security function is examined through the study of management strategies and case studies. Discussions and research will include policies and procedures, fiscal management, audits and surveys and organizational structures and operations and crisis management.

This course surveys a variety of procedures, programs and policies used to form a strategic business security plan to neutralize an organization’s vulnerabilities and measure the effectiveness of its security. Strategies to prevent and reduce risks inherent in the private business sector will be discussed and analyzed.

Criminal law, administrative law and extralegal contractual agreements that impact security management including legal liabilities attached to arrest, search and seizure, evidence, tort liability and personnel issues in industrial, corporate, retail and private security.



This course will assess the current and changing landscape of cybercrime and expose students to advanced concepts in computer forensic analysis, as part of a response to the investigation of an incident. The methods of collection, preservation, analysis and presentation of digital evidence will be presented to properly conduct a computer forensics investigation.



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