Systems Security

3 credit hours · Undergraduate

Students examine the security of systems, including a basic survey of security requirements, techniques for detecting and defending against system intrusion. Topics to be covered are related to security requirements of e-commerce, banking, medical, social engineering, and vulnerabilities of computer languages, networks, hardware, authentication, and databases. Security defense using auditing, encryption, authentication, hardware, physical security, network and host based intrusion detection, and redirection are covered.