CS438 Security and Info Warfare
 
 

CS438

 

Course Description:

 

 Computer Security and Information Warfare. 3(1). An introduction to the technical aspects of Information Warfare.  Emphasis is on how computer systems and networks are secured in order to protect them from an Information Warfare attack.  Topics include Viruses, Worms, Hacking, Phreaking, authentication, access and flow controls, security models, encryption, intrusion detection, and firewalls. Final Project.  

Prerequisites:

 Coreq: Comp Sci 467 and Comp Sci 483

Offered:

 Spring

Semester Hours:

 3

Course   Objectives:  

 Upon completion of the course, students shall be able to:
  1. Understand basic computer security and information warfare concepts and principles.
  2. Understand and discuss whether security is decidable and under what conditions.
  3. Discuss and describe how security can be clearly and functionally defined through basic formal security models
  4. Understand implementation mechanisms/models for confidentiality and integrity policies.
  5. Apply implementation mechanisms to provide availability, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation.
  6. Identify and discuss legal and ethical issues involved with lawful and unlawful use of computers.
  7. Perform basic enumeration and scanning.
  8. Attack confidentiality (cracking, sniffing), authenticity (spoofing), availability (denial-of-service), and integrity (buffer-overflows/Trojan-horse).
  9. Develop secure architectures based on stated policies, requirements, and threats.
  10. Perform basic evaluation of a security design.

 

   

 

 

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