Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

MET CS 695 (4 credits)

This course introduces fundamental concepts, principles of cybersecurity and their use in the development of security mechanisms and policies. Topics include basic risk assessment and management; basic legal and ethics issues, various cyber attacks, defense methods and tools; security principles, models and components; different crypto protocols, techniques and tools, including symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms, hashing, public key infrastructure, and how they can be used; security threats and defense to hardware, operating systems, networks and applications in modern computing environments. Hands-on labs using current tools are provided and required. Prerequisite: METCS535 or METCS625 or instructor's consent.

2023FALLMETCS695 A1, Sep 5th to Dec 12th 2023

2023FALLMETCS695 E1, Sep 5th to Dec 12th 2023

2023SUM2METCS695SO2, Jul 5th to Aug 22nd 2023