Information Security Fundamentals (BTBS109)
The course's main objectives are familiarity with ethics, awareness of contemporary challenges, and a fundamental understanding of IT history and the basic concepts of cybersecurity and critical thinking skill. Topics include computer hardware and software, fundamentals of computer networks, internet technologies, operating systems, and database management. In addition, the course explores key cybersecurity principles such as types of threats (malware, social engineering, DDoS attacks, etc.), security policies, encryption methods, authentication, and access control. An overview of ethical theories and associated issues, including privacy, networking, security, and reliability, are covered in the course. The course covers topics from many angles, including government oversight, cybercrimes, and intellectual property. Students will study global concerns like social networking, cyberspace, cybernetics, and online crimes. The goal of this course is to develop students' critical thinking skills and provide them with the ability to make their own decisions. In addition, students will have the skill to reconcile opposing viewpoints, which will effectively equip them to work as ethical and responsible team members and as individual users of innovative technologies.