CIS 4367 - Computer Security

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: CNT 3004C Introduction to Computer Networks
Co-requisite or Prerequisite: CIS 4362 Applied Cryptography
Co-requisite: COP 4610 - Operating Systems Concepts

Course Description: This course covers security issues in different aspects of computing. Topics covered include access control mechanisms, authentication models, vulnerability detection, attacks and their mitigation methods at the OS level, security issues in databases and operating systems, mobile code, security kernels, malicious code, trojan horses, computer viruses, and security policy formation and enforcement.