CS 3503 - IT Security

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 3 Lecture
Offered: Fall

Begins with an examination of the business continuity mandate for securing IT assets, and moves through physical versus logical security, how to categorize and analyze threats using organizational security policies; integrating multi-disciplinary skills to analyze risks, and implementation of security measures. These security measures include authentication, authorization, cryptography, perimeter security, as well as methods for securing applications and various functional servers.

Prerequisite: CS 1033 - Foundations Of Operating Systems I and CS 1063 - Foundations Of Operating Systems II