Principles of Cybersecurity

Catalog description

This course provides a broad introduction to cybersecurity principles and practices, and emphasizes policies and mechanisms for building secure and trusted computer systems. It will cover cybersecurity principles, policies and mechanisms; core knowledge areas of data, software, component, connection, system, human, organizational and societal security; and crosscutting concepts of confidentiality, integrity, availability, risk, adversarial thinking, and systems thinking. Topics in privacy, and legal and ethical aspects will also be emphasized. Presentations, reports and projects are required. Students cannot take and receive credit for this course if they have credit for CSCI-655 . This course requires the knowledge of computer science theory and concepts of computer systems.