CIS 4367 - Computer Security

Credits: 3

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.
Co-requisite or Prerequisite: CNT 3004 Introduction to Computer Networks