Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2014-2015
COMP 427 - INTRO TO COMPUTER SECURITY
Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER SECURITY
Department: Computer Science
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): COMP 310
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.