Concepts and methods of planning, designing, implementing, managing, and auditing security for the typical information services. Topics include: applicable law and regulations, information policy, operating systems protection mechanisms, intrusion detection systems, formal models of security, cryptography, network and distributed systems security, denial of service attack strategies and defense, worms, viruses, and Internet secure applications.
Prerequisite: BIS 317 or CS 203 or CT 210 or permission of the department chairperson.