Advanced Security and Information Systems

Catalog description

Prerequisites: INFSYS 3848 or consent of department chair. This course builds upon the principles of information security. It covers topics ranging from networking, penetration testing, formal verification of systems, formal models of information flow and protection, distributed system authentication, protocol design and attack, computer viruses and malware, as well as intrusion and anomaly detection models. Students are exposed to virtualization, defensive security, offensive security, and other forms of cybersecurity. Credit cannot be granted for both INFSYS 3858 and INFSYS 6858 .