Introduction to Information Security: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

Expose students to the concept of network security and make them aware of related information security and privacy problems. Topics in network security includes malware, social engineering attacks, Web application attacks, wireless security, access control, authentication, basic cryptography, and security in social medial and cloud computing. Various attack demonstrations and animations will be utilized. This course can be used as low-level CS elective. Prerequisites: (COMP 1422 or COMP 1224) or ((COMP 1221 or COMP 1122 ) and ( COMP 1337 or COMP 1223)).