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   SAIS Core Courses

• TELCOM 2810/INFSCI 2150: Introduction to Security: Covers fundamental issues and first principles of security and information assurance (confidentiality/ privacy, integrity, authentication, identification, authorization, availability, access control). Business issues of risk analysis and management of resources are discussed. Topics covered are issues in information system security; analysis, design, and coding of information systems/networks for security; techniques for building secure organizational systems; e-commerce related security issues;policy, legal and ethical issues in security. PREREQS: Programming Skills, Basic Knowledge of Computer Systems [previously offered as Introduction to Computer Security] (Fall'06, Fall'05, Fall'04, Fall'03)

• TELCOM 2820/INFSCI 2170: Cryptography: Covers principles of number theory and cryptographic algorithms and cryptanalysis. Topics include: steganography, block and stream ciphers, secret key encryption (DES, AES, RC-n), primes, random numbers, factoring, and discrete logarithms; Public key encryption (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, Elliptic curve cryptography, N'Tru); Key management, hash functions (MD5, SHA-1,RIPEMD-160, HMAC), digital signatures, certificates and authentication protocols. Cryptanalytic methods (known, chosen plaintext etc.) for secret and public key schemes (linear and differential cryptanalysis, Pollard's rho method, number field sieve, etc.) PREREQS: TELCOM 2000, 2210, 2300. (link)

• TELCOM 2821: Network Security: Covers principles of network security and management. Network vulnerabilities, security at the physical, link, network and transport layers: dial-up security (PAP, CHAP, RADIUS, Diameter), IPSec, SSL, and VPNs are reviewed. Topics also include e-mail security (PGP, S/MIME); Kerberos; X.509 certificates; AAA and Mobile IP; SNMP security; Firewalls: Filters and gateways; Policies and implementation of firewall policies; Stateful firewalls; Firewall appliances. PREREQS: TELCOM 2820. (link)

• TELCOM 2830/INFSCI 2629: Capstone Course in Security: This class will be an integrative class that masters students will take in their final semester of the SAIS track. The capstone course will be a combination of business and technical case studies and group projects. The case studies portion of the course focuses on the business/economics aspects of providing information assurance and how this impacts technology. The case study teaching model commonly used in business schools is used in this portion of the course. A major component of the course is the group project, which involves designing and developing a prototype secure and survivable information system and includes application development, system deployment, system optimization and system economics. PREREQS: TELCOM 2810, 2821. [previously offered as INFSCI 2190]

   SAIS Elective Courses

• TELCOM 2813/INFSCI 2621: Security Management: Covers security management in information systems and networks. Topics include intrusion detection systems, anomaly detection, computer forensics, application logging, auditing and data management, contingency planning and incident handling, digital immune systems; alarms and responses; Security standards, evaluation and certification; Ethical and legal issues in information; Privacy, traceability and cyber-evidence. PREREQS: TELCOM 2810/2821. [previously offered as INFSCI 2820] (Spring'06, Spring'05)

• TELCOM 2825: Information System and Network Infrastructure Protection: This course considers security, and fault-tolerance and survivability of distributed information systems and networks. Topics include survivability analysis and system reliability, traffic restoration schemes, fault tolerant computing, fault tolerant software, and survivable system & network design, and life cycle management; interaction between traffic restoration schemes and security policies and procedures; infrastructural protection/survivability, and information warfare/cyber-security issues. PREREQS: TELCOM 2810, 2821. (link)

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