Information Security

Catalog description

Upon completion of this course students will be able to: 1) Define and analyze the key concepts of information security, including confidentiality, integrity, authentication and availability, and identify the salient issues, viewpoints, and trade-offs of information security; 2) Describe and apply the basic concepts and primitives of cryptography, including private-key and public-key encryption, message authentication and digital signature; 3) Describe and apply basic mechanisms of system security, including access control and confinement; 4) Explain attacks against the internet and web applications; 5) Describe protocols that secure the internet and web, including secure email protocols, defense against Structure Query Language (SQL) injection, Secure Socket Layer (SSL), and intrusion detection of malware; and 6) identify and examine basic human and ethical issues in information security and apply appropriate security controls to systems.