This course provides a broad view of information assurance and security and its major subjects: protection of information assets; access to information system; hacking; legislation and industrial standards. In addition, this course will serve as a guideline for students to make their course selections.

This course covers cybersecurity majors with background knowledge units that are required by major graduate-level cyber security courses. It focuses on the fundamental concepts related to networks, operating systems, database systems, and computer programming/scripting languages. Students learn both the concepts and the related skill sets in this course. The course provides a fast-paced introduction to scripting languages, core concepts of computer networks, and various system issues developed in computer operating systems and database management systems.

This course introduces the concepts of database theories, secure database and methods of protecting data. It covers the discretionary and mandatory access controls, secure database design, data integrity, secure architectures, secure transaction processing, information flow controls and inference controls, and discusses various secure database models including distributed database system.

This is one of the three courses you can choose from in your final semester.