Computer Security

3 Units

General types of security attacks; approaches to prevention; secret key and public key cryptography; message authentication and hash functions; digital signatures, authentication, and authorization; network protocol vulnerabilities; information gathering; forensics; password attacks; spoofing; denial of service attacks; buffer overflows; viruses, worms, etc., principles of secure software design; pen testing; threat modeling; access control; network and system hardening; least privilege; storing secrets; firewalls; intrusions; auditing; mobile security; and privacy. Recommended preparation: CSDS 293 , CSDS 325 and CSDS 338 . Offered as CSDS 344 and CSDS 444 . Prereq: CSDS 132 .