{"id":659,"date":"2009-08-29T15:54:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T19:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/?page_id=659"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:20:28","slug":"cs595","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/academic-programs\/courses\/cs595\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Fundamentals"},"content":{"rendered":"<style> p {margin-bottom:0px;} .course-feed .cf-course h4 {display: none; white-space: wrap;} .button{width:125px;}<\/style>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"course-feed\"><div class=\"cf-course\">\n\t<h4>Cybersecurity Fundamentals<\/h4>\n\t<p class=\"meta\">MET CS 595 (4 credits)<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p>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.<\/p>\n\t\n\t<p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS595A1, Jan 20th to Apr 30th 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>W<\/td>\n\t<td>06:00 PM<\/td>\n\t<td>08:45 PM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td>MET<\/td>\n\t<td>122<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><p class=\"\"><em>2026SPRGMETCS595O1, Jan 13th to Mar 2nd 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<table>\n\t<tr>\n\t\t<th>Days<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Start<\/th>\n\t\t<th>End<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Type<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Bldg<\/th>\n\t\t<th>Room<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t<tr>\n\t<td>ARR<\/td>\n\t<td>12:00 AM<\/td>\n\t<td>12:00 AM<\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n\t<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Format &amp; Syllabus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"btn-group\">\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">On Campus<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/01\/CS-695-Shengzhi-Zhang.pdf\">CS695 SPRG24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2023\/01\/MET-CS695-23SP-Syllabus.pdf\">CS695 SPRG23<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/09\/MET-CS695-22FSyllabus.pdf\">CS695 FALL22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS695-A1_Spring-2022_Entpr-Cyber-Sec.pdf\">CS695 SPRG22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2021\/09\/MET-CS695-21F-Syllabus.pdf\">CS695 FALL21<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2020\/09\/MET-CS695-Fall-2020-Syllabus.pdf\">CS695 FALL20<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/08\/Fall-2018-CS695-B1-E1-Syllabus.pdf\">CS695 FALL18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS695_B1_E1_Fall-2017.pdf\">CS695 FALL17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2017\/08\/CS695_A1E1_Spring-2017-1.pdf\">CS695 SPRG17<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">Online<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/See-695-Syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2026\/01\/METCS595_Syllabus_2026Spring_Online.pdf\">595 O1 SPRG26<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/01\/See-695-Syllabus.pdf\">CS695 SPRG25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2022\/08\/MET_CS695-O1_Spring-2022_Entpr-Cyber-Sec.pdf\">CS695 SPRG22<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/06\/CS695_O1_SPRG-1-2018.pdf\">CS695 SPRG18<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/06\/CS695_O1_SUMM-2-2018.pdf\">CS695 SUM18<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"dropdown\">\n<p><button class=\"button\">Blended<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"dropdown-content\"><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/09\/MET-CS695-24F-Syllabus.pdf\"><\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2025\/08\/MET-CS695-25F-Syllabus.pdf\">CS695 Fall25<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2024\/09\/MET-CS695-24F-Syllabus.pdf\">CS695 FALL24<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2018\/05\/CS695_B1_E1_Fall-2017.pdf\">CS695 FALL17<\/a><a href=\"\/csmet\/files\/2017\/08\/CS695_A1E1_Spring-2017-1.pdf\">CS695 SPRG17<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfloat\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Format &amp; Syllabus: On Campus CS695 SPRG24CS695 SPRG23CS695 FALL22CS695 SPRG22CS695 FALL21CS695 FALL20CS695 FALL18CS695 FALL17CS695 SPRG17 Online 595 O1 SPRG26CS695 SPRG25CS695 SPRG22CS695 SPRG18CS695 SUM18 Blended CS695 Fall25CS695 FALL24CS695 FALL17CS695 SPRG17 &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1719,"featured_media":0,"parent":7301,"menu_order":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31216,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/659\/revisions\/31216"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/csmet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}