Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Fundamentals

MET CS 595 (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.

2026SPRGMETCS595A1, Jan 20th to Apr 30th 2026

2026SPRGMETCS595O1, Jan 13th to Mar 2nd 2026