CSC 6222 - Cyber Security

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: CSc 2720 Data Structures and CSc 3320 System-Level Programming.
Description
This course will describe the basic principles of security and privacy, including cryptography, identifications and authentications, access control models and mechanisms, network security, programs and programming security, web security, operating system security, database security, cloud security, Privacy (Data mining, web, and email), planning and administering security, security challenges in emerging topics (the Internet of Things, Economics, Electronic Voting, Cyber Warfare), and legal issues and ethics in security. The students will gain an understanding of the threats to cybersecurity and learn about counter measurements and their limitations.