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.
Prerequisites
| ONE of |
| CPEN 331 – Operating and File Systems |
| CPEN 333 – System Software Engineering |
| CPSC 313 – Computer Hardware and Operating Systems |
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