Computer and Information Security

Catalog description

Students in this course will study the techniques for protecting data within a computer and protecting data as it moves through a network. Data and system security and reliability will be considered in a distributed environment. Topics will include encryption, authentication and digital signatures, threats to the computer system, and system reliability. Additionally, the students will be exposed to information system vulnerabilities, critical infrastructures, the growing threat of social networks, intelligence and counter intelligence, international laws, security policies, privacy and information liability, cyber attacks and threats, risk assessment, cybersecurity data gathering and recovery, and a survey of future cyber technology developments. Prerequisite : COSC 1560 and junior standing.