Cybersecurity (BTBS417)
The aim of this course is to express why cybersecurity is a societal imperative; analyze the tradeoffs of balancing key security properties like confidentiality, integrity, and availability; contrast the roles of prevention, deterrence, and detection mechanisms; document the role of formal methods in creating high assurance software and systems; express the differences between vulnerabilities, threats, and risk; analyze a security policy and/or procedure to show where it considers, or fails to consider, human factors; contrast encryption, digital signatures, and hash functions; document standards that apply to an organization’s information security posture; contrast the internet of things with the web of things, with industrial internet, with pervasive computing, and with smart systems.