CSE405

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Cyber Security

3 Credit Hour Course

Intended For Level 4 Term 1 Students

Prerequisite:

Fundamental concepts: confidentiality, integrity and availability, assurance, authenticity and anonymity; threats and attacks, security principles, Ethical issues in security; Cryptographic concepts: encryption, digital signatures, simple attacks on cryptosystems, cryptographic hash functions, digital certificates, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange Algorithm; Cryptography: symmetric cryptography, public-key cryptography, cryptographic hash functions, digital signatures, details of AES and RSA cryptography; Security: Operating systems concepts, process security, memory and file system security, physical security, application program security, network security concepts, browser security, Security Attacks: buffer overflow and other vulnerabilities due to insecure programming, foot printing, social engineering, Trojans and backdoors, sniffing, denial of service, session hijacking, dictionary attack on password protected systems, threats on components like web servers, web applications, mobile platforms, wireless networks; Security Measures: Firewall, Intrusion detection and prevention.