MSC 5700 Cybersecurity Fundamentals
This course covers the full spectrum of cybersecurity domains and topics, e.g., applications, software, network, physical/logical infrastructure, cloud. Students learn about contemporary and emerging technologies and how they provide secure platforms for applications, IoT, (digital) products and services. Introductory concepts include security and risk management, threat landscape, asset security, security operations and response, defense to hardware, operating systems, networks and applications in modern computing environments, software vulnerabilities, basic cryptography, operating systems protections, protections concepts across data, identity, and devices, network and cloud security, privacy, data mining, computer crime, techniques and tools including symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms, hashing, public key infrastructure, and how they can be used.