CPEN 442

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Security risks, threats, and vulnerabilities from technical perspectives; confidentiality, integrity, and hybrid policies; cryptography, access control, assurance, accountability, and engineering of secure systems.

4 credits

Course Topics

• Key principles of conventional computer security
• Principles and practices of developing secure software systems

Course Objectives

• Articulate the principles of computer and information security,
• Describe similarities and differences among various symmetric and public key
• cryptographic techniques,
• Explain discretionary owner-based, mandatory lattice-based, and role-based access
• control models,
• Describe main types of security policies,
• Articulate the principles of security design,
• Explain methods of security assurance,
• Articulate the defense methods against malicious logic.

Textbook

Mark Stamp, Information Security: Principles and Practice, Third Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2021.