SPRING BREAK All Freeport Area schools will be closed for Spring Break on Thursday, March 28, through Monday, April 1 Classes will resume on Tuesday, April 2
This course covers the fundamental concepts in computer security and privacy. The course is intended to expose the various security threats and vulnerabilities in computer systems and provide an understanding of the various defense and protection mechanisms. Primarily, the course will focus on models and mechanisms related to insuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability related to computer and information systems. We will cover the basic concepts of cryptography including symmetric and public key encryption schemes. We then focus on program security issues such as buffer overflow attacks and discuss various control mechanisms to handle malicious code. The second half of the course will cover the topics of Database Security and general security issues in Operating Systems. Towards the end, we discuss various security and privacy issues in the context of emerging cloud computing systems. Students may choose the option of receiving 3 credits from University of Pittsburgh.
Assignments and course documents can be found in our google classroom or on schoology.