| InfAs 530: Advanced Protocols and Network Security |
| (Cross-listed with CPR E.) (3-0) Cr. 3. Prereq: Cpr E 381. |
Detailed examination of networking standards, protocols, and their implementation. TCP/IP protocol suite, network application protocols, IP routing, network security issues. Emphasis on laboratory experiments.
Major Teaching Department: CPR E
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| InfAs 531: Information System Security |
| (Cross-listed with CPR E.) (3-0) Cr. 3. Prereq: Cpr E 489 or 530 or Com S 586 or MIS 535. |
Computer and network security: basic cryptography, security policies, multilevel security models, attack and protection mechanisms, legal and ethical issues.
Major Teaching Department: CPR E
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| InfAs 532: Information Warfare |
| (Cross-listed with CPR E.) (3-0) Cr. 3. Prereq: Cpr E 531. |
Computer system and network security: implementation, configuration, testing of security software and hardware, network monitoring. Authentication, firewalls, vulnerabilities, exploits, countermeasures. Ethics in information assurance. Emphasis on laboratory experiments.
Major Teaching Department: CPR E
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| InfAs 533: Cryptography |
| (Cross-listed with MATH, CPR E.) (3-0) Cr. 3. S. Prereq: Math 301 or Cpr E 310 or Com S 330. |
Basic concepts of secure communication, DES and AES, public-key cryptosystems, elliptic curves, hash algorithms, digital signatures, applications. Relevant material on number theory and finite fields.
Major Teaching Department: MATH
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| InfAs 534: Legal and Ethical Issues in Information Assurance |
| (Cross-listed with CPR E, POL S.) (3-0) Cr. 3. S. Prereq: Graduate classification, Cpr E or INFAS 531. |
Legal and ethical issues in computer security. State and local codes and regulations. Privacy issues.
Major Teaching Department: POL S
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| InfAs 535: Steganography and Watermarking |
| (Cross-listed with MATH, CPR E.) (3-0) Cr. 3. S. Prereq: Cpr E 531 or E E 524 or Math 533/Cpr E 533/InfAs 533. |
Basic principles of steganography and watermarking. Algorithms based on spatial domain approaches, transformations of data, statistical approaches. Techniques for images, video, and audio data. Communications models for data hiding. Analysis, detection and recovery of hidden data. Military, commercial and e-commerce applications. Known theoretical results. Software packages for data hiding. Social and legal issues, case studies, and digital rights management issues that affect technological development of steganography and watermarking. Current developments in the area.
Major Teaching Department: MATH
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| InfAs 536: Computer and Network Forensics |
| (Cross-listed with CPR E.) (3-0) Cr. 3. Prereq: Cpr E 381 and Cpr E 489 or 530. |
Fundamentals of computer and network forensics, forensic duplication and analysis, network surveillance, intrusion detection and response, incident response, anonymity and pseudonymity, privacy-protection techniques, cyber law, computer security policies and guidelines, court testimony and report writing, and case studies. Emphasis on hands-on experiments.
Major Teaching Department: CPR E
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| InfAs 592: Seminar in Information Assurance |
| Cr. 1-3. Repeatable. Prereq: Permission of instructor. |
| Projects or seminar in Information Assurance.
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| InfAs 632: Information Assurance Capstone Design |
| (Cross-listed with CPR E.) (3-0) Cr. 3. Prereq: 531, 532, 534. |
Capstone design course which integrates the security design process. Design of a security policy. Creation of a security plan. Implementation of the security plan. The students will attach each other's secure environments in an effort to defeat the security systems. Students evaluate the security plans and the performance of the plans. Social, political and ethics issues. Student self-evaluation, journaling, final written report, and an oral report.
Major Teaching Department: INFAS
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| InfAs 697: Information Assurance Summer Internship |
| Cr. R. Prereq: Permission of department, graduate classification. |
One semester and one summer maximum per academic year professional work period.
Satisfactory Fail Only
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