IWCRTU - Information Warfare

Undergraduate Certificate

College of Engineering

Undergraduate

The Information Warfare Certificate will prepare students to detect, deconstruct, and counter adversarial influence operations within highly complex information environments. Students will use interactive exercises to master the ability to leverage open source data to support the development of psychological and information operation campaigns. Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to explain how influence operations focus on manipulating the psychology of targets through strategic communication; develop and employ denial of service & counter messaging strategies to mitigate adversarial IO campaigns; and synchronize the integration of information operations with kinetic and electronic warfare operations to support hybrid and unrestricted warfare.

- Analyze the structure and functions of the US national security and intelligence communities, including law enforcement agencies.
- Identify and apply tactics, techniques, and procedures used to conduct and defend against Information Operation campaigns.
- Demonstrate critical thinking strategies, including: reasoning, problem solving, analysis, and evaluation, through; analytic writing, application of research methods, and advanced briefing skills.
- Describe and demonstrate how knowledge about an adversary's motivation, intentions, and methods are collected, analyzed, and disseminated to help security personnel to align resources within an enterprise architecture.