This course provides a thorough understanding of the technical aspects of computer security. It covers network, operating system, and application software security. Computer laboratory projects provide exposure to various tools in a hands-on setting.
Access Control - Identification, authentication, and authorization.
Network Security - attacks, intrusion detection, auditing, firewalls, packet monitoring and other tools/techniques for finding network security related problems.
Operating System Security - threats, vulnerability scanning, password cracking, accounts and privileges
Application Software Security - design of secure systems, Java security, buffer overflows, database security, client-side and server-side securities, tamper resistant software, finding vulnerabilities.