Introduction to Computer Software Security for Engineering

Catalog description

This course is intended to serve as an elective for upper-level undergraduate students in computer science and electrical engineering, and for graduate students in computer science, and electrical engineering. It covers selected up-to-date topics in computer security, including defining threats to computer and network systems, evaluating the relative risks of these threats, and the development of cost-effective countermeasures. The course discusses basic principles that appear repeatedly as themes, including those related to authentication and access control, particularly in the context of operating systems and other computing applications. Different approaches to meeting computer security requirements, as well as increasingly important security standards are covered. This course has a special focus on low-level fundamentals of the Security Discipline such as the mathematical basis for Cryptography. This is accompanied by a series of real-world applications and hands on programming assignments.