Cybersecurity Foundation - CYS 1111

This course provides students necessary background in the technical realities and legal and theoretical principles of computer and information security to help the students identify and evaluate computer security crimes and incidents. Topics include: computer security components and models, legal and ethical issues in information security and privacy, basics of computer networks and data communication, common computer and network system threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities, cyber security risk and damage analysis and assessment, introduction to cryptographic principles and biometric system, concepts cybercrime awareness and types, and digital forensics and disaster recovery.

 

• Illustrate the concepts of computer security in relevance to computer operating systems, distributed systems, networks and representative applications. 
• Illustrate the cyber security concepts and principles. 
• Demonstrate the theory and concepts of Cryptography. 
• Differentiate between security services and policies (such as authentication, integrity and confidentiality), as well as protocols to implement such policies in the form of message exchanges.
• Illustrate the concepts cybercrime awareness and types

Understand the concept of digital forensics and disaster recovery