2024-2025 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

CYS 492 Computer Security

The fundamentals of computer and network security issues are explored. Topics include classical and modern techniques of conventional encryption; algorithms; public-key encryption, hash functions, and quantum resilience; software reverse engineering; and system security intruders, viruses, worms, and firewalls.

Credits

3

Cross Listed Courses

Cross listed as CS 492. No credit given to students with credit for CS 492.

Prerequisite

Grade C- or better in both CS 253 and either CS 254 or CET 229, or permission of Department Chair, or admission to a graduate program in CIT. CS 501 and CS 502 are prerequisites for graduate students.

General Education

Offered

  • Fall and Spring