Course Description: The course confronts graduate students with a wide variety of legal and ethical issues in organizational environments that are technologically intensive, such as information technology and the life sciences. Impacts of intellectual property legislation and legal cases in national and international venues are investigated. Legal and social issues involving individual privacy are argued. This exposure to legal and ethical dilemmas is an important tool as the graduates encounter such situation throughout their careers. Coupled with technical proficiency the ability to deal with legal and ethical issues shapes professional successes and failures. Not available to students who have completed 0102-785. Credit 4
4005-774 Secure Database Systems
Course Description: This course explores policies, methods and mechanisms for protecting enterprise data. Topics include data reliability, integrity, and confidentiality; discretionary and mandatory access controls; secure database architectures; secure transaction processing; information flow, aggregations, and inference controls, and auditing; security models for relational, object-oriented, statistical, XML, and real time database systems. Programming projects are required. (4002-484, or 4003-485, or 4010-443 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4
4055-726 Research Methods in NSSA
Course Description: This seminar introduces students to the MS in Networking and Systems Administration by providing an opportunity to meet the faculty involved in the program and their fellow students. Students will learn about current areas of research in networking and systems administration and areas of interest of the faculty. To encourage students to begin thinking about their final project or thesis, students will develop a research proposal that may serve as the basis for their later project/thesis proposal. In addition, this course provides an overview of the academic research methodologies in graduate level work. Topics include: experimental research, correlation, experiment observation, surveys, and case studies. Also included will be document structure, validation, and the process for submission and review to conferences and journals.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Credit: 4
4055-755 Secure Wireless and Wired Data Networks
Course Description: Providing security in today’s complex networks is a complicated subject and requires network managers to be well versed in the many aspects comprising network security. In order to accommodate the rapid expansion of networks and the alarming rate in which network security is breached, there is a need for more and better educated people who understand the basics of security in a networked world. This course is designed to provide students with the foundation needed to understand the problems of network security, perform a risk analysis to ascertain the threats and cost of an attack, and design and implement security strategies to effectively build a defense to minimize the effects of these attacks.
Prerequisites: 4055-746 or equivalent knowledge
Corequisites:
Credit: 4
4055-780 Computer Systems Security
Course Description: This course provides an introduction to computer system and network security. The areas covered will include the liability, exposure, opportunity, and ability to exploit various weaknesses in a networked computer environment. The forms of the attacks and the detection and defense of the attacks will be discussed. The techniques and facilities available to both the intruder and administrator will be examined and evaluated with illustrative laboratory exercises.
Prerequites: 4055 761 or equivalent
Corequisite: 4055-780 lab
Credit: 4
4010-748 Secure Software Engineering: Requirements and Design
Course Description: Overview of the secure software issues and principles that should be addressed during requirements of engineering and design. Topics include: risk management and software requirement specification. Designing for security and security in implementation.
Prerequites: 4010 361
Credit: 4
4005-705 Cryptography I
Course Description: The course is devoted to the review of basic cryptographic algorithms, their implementation and usage. Classical encryption techniques and those of Rivest-Shamir-Adleman and EL Gamal will be seen in depth, and an overview of several others will be presented. This course also presents authentication schemes and interactive proof protocols. Students will write a term paper, either theoretical based on literature or reporting a student's own implementation or experiments with a chosen cryptographic scheme. Depending on the size of the group, some or all students will give a presentation to the class.
Prerequisites: 4003-263 or 4003-334; 1016-265; set by instructor
Credit: 4
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