Perquisite(s): COS 103, or Instructor Permission. Explores Information Security and Assurance issues using a multidisciplinary approach. Examines security policies, models, and mechanisms for secrecy, integrity, availability and usage. Examines secuirty policies, models, and mechanisms for mandatory and discretionary controls, data models, basic cryptography and its applications, security in computer networks and distributed systems, inspection and protection of information assets, detection of and reaction to threats to information assets, and examination of pre- and post-incident procedures, technical and managerial responses and an overview of the Information Security Planning and Staffing functions. Emphasizes development of awareness and appreciation of information secuirty and assurance issues with prrojects tailored to student career/academic goals.

Perquisite(s): COS 206, COS 338. Provides a fundamental understanding of network security principles and implementation. Covers the technologies used and principles involved in creating a secure computer networking environment. Provides the student a variety on hands-on and case project opportunities that reinforce the concepts. Explores authentication, attack types and malicious code, threats and countermeasures, securing e-mail, Web applications, remote access, file and print services, security topologies, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, physical security concepts, security policies, disaster recovery, and computer forensics.

Perquisite(s): COS 206, COS 370 This course presents methods to properly conduct a computer forensics investigation beginning with a discussion of ethics, while mapping to the objectives of the International Association of Computer Investigative Specialists (IACIS) certification.

Perquisite(s): COS 206, COS 260, MAT 280, COS 354

This course introduces the principles of number theory and the practice of network security and cryptographic algorithms. Topics include: Primes, random numbers, modular arithmetic and discrete logarithms. Conventional or symmetric encryption (DES, IDEA, Blowfish, Twofish, Rijndael) and public key or asymmetric encryption (RSA, Diffie-Hellman), key management, hash functions (MD5, SHA-1, RIPEMD-160 HMAC, digital signatures, certificates, authentication protocols (X.509, DSS, Kerberos), electronic mail security (PGP, S/MIME), web security, and protocols for secure electronic commerce (IPSec, SSL, TLS, SET).