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[Course] IT460 [Title] INFORMATION WARFARE [Crdts] 3 [Department] Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [Scope] 
This course addresses the entire spectrum of information warfare from the political, legal, and ethical aspects to the technology and techniques of cyber attack. The Political Science and Computer Science faculty jointly teach this course. The course covers how digitization has changed the world and the national security environment of the United States. Students also learn how attack and defense are conducted in cyberspace through classroom discussion and hands-on exercises in the IWAR Laboratory. The course culminates with a group project in which cadets are given a real scenario and possible U.S. objectives and then develop and brief an information operation plan.
USMA Course Offerings Fall 2012-2013 :: Academics :: USNA
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