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- CSCE 517 - Computer Crime and Forensics
(syllabus)
- Methodical approaches for collecting and preserving evidence of computer crimes.
Foundational concepts such as file system structures, MAC times, and network protocols,
tools for extracting evidence, general legal issues.
- CSCE 522 - Information Security Principles
(syllabus)
- Threats to information resources and appropriate countermeasures. Cryptography,
identification and authentication, access control models and mechanisms, multilevel
database security, steganography, Internet security, and intrusion detection and prevention.
- CSCE 548 - Building Secure Software
(syllabus)
- Construction of software systems resistant to vulnerabilities and attacks. Cryptographic
tools. Language, operating system, and network security. Case studies. Development of best
practices through programming assignments.
- CSCE 557 - Introduction to Cryptography
(syllabus)
- Design of codes and ciphers for secure communication, including encryption, authentication,
and integrity verification: codes, ciphers, cryptographic hashing, and public key cryptosystems.
Cryptological mathematical principles, cryptanalysis, and protocols for security.
- CSCE 715 - Network Systems Security
(syllabus)
- Analysis of security threats in TCP/IP networks. Design of safeguards.
Coverage of security threats at each of the OSI layers. Application of
cryptographic protocols for secure communication across a network
- CSCE 717 - Computer Systems Performance and Reliability Analysis
(syllabus)
- Evaluation of computer system performance and reliability using reliability block
diagrams, fault trees, reliability graphics, queuing networks, Markov models, and
Markov reward models.
- CSCE 727 - Information Warfare
(syllabus)
- Current trends and challenges in information warfare. High-level analysis of information
warfare threats, like cyber terrorism, espionage, internet fraud, intelligence activities,
cyber ethics and law enforcement.
- CSCE 790S - Theory of Quantum Computing and Information
(syllabus)
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The fundamentals of quantum information processing, including quantum computation,
quantum cryptography, and quantum information theory.
- CSCE 813 - Internet Security
(syllabus)
- Study security threats and prevention/detection/response techniques on the Internet,
including hackers, masqueraders, information spoofing, sniffing, and distribution of damaging
software. Security analysis of Web applications.
- CSCE 814 - Distributed Systems Security
(syllabus)
- Security mechanisms of distributed software systems, including cryptographic applications.
Secure multiparty computation, group-based cryptography, and security mechanisms for emerging
distributed architectures.
- CSCE 824 - Secure Database Systems
(syllabus)
- Security threats to database systems. Access control models, multilevel security,
integrity, web-based databases, and data inference problem. Formal models of multilevel
security, confidentiality versus availability and integrity.
- CSCE 853 - Formal Methods in Computer Security
(syllabus)
- Formal techniques applied to computer security, including formal specification languages for
security properties, security analysis utilities, domain-specific security concerns, and case
studies of formally verified secure systems.
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