Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2015

     

COMP 427 001 (CRN: 24169)

INTRO TO COMPUTER SECURITY

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SECURITY
Department: Computer Science
Instructor: Wallach, Dan S.
Meeting: 10:50AM - 12:05PM TR DCH 1046 (12-JAN-2015 - 24-APR-2015) 
Session: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
 
Prerequisites: COMP 310
Section Max Enrollment: 39
Section Enrolled: 36
Enrollment data as of: 10-JUN-2023 12:52PM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: Final Exam Unknown
 
Description: This elective course covers a wide variety of topics in computer security, including hands-on experience w/breaking software & engineering software to be harder to break. For example, students will perform buffer overflow attacks & exploit web application vulnerabilities, while also learning how to defend against them. Grades will be based on a series of in-class projects.