CYBS 6345 Securing the Digital World
This course is designed to provide students with a broad overview of cybersecurity, starting with the concepts of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Students will be introduced to problems in real-world security centered around specifications, implementation, performance, and human factors. Topics covered in this course focus on real-world security of systems, networks, and data by using material from the evolving threat landscape, cryptography and access control, security protocols and the role of human-computer interaction in cybersecurity. This course is included in the University of Dallas’s NSA National Centers of Academic Excellence designation as CAE-Cyber Defense (CAE-CD). (cross listed with ACCT 6345. Securing the Digital World)
Offered
Fall, Spring, Summer