The Introduction to Information Security course surveys central concepts in applied information security and cyber security, and offers a hands-on introduction to secure programming and vulnerability analysis.

High-level goals:

- Make students aware of the major security risks and attack vectors

- Teach about good tools and practices for building secure systems

- Instill the state of mind and conceptual vocabulary for reasoning about systems security

Course requirements:

- Final exam

- Homework exercises every 1-2 weeks. Many homework will be “wet”

exercises on attacking and defending mock systems.

Requisite courses:

- Operating Systems

- Computer Structure

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- Introduction to Modern Cryptography (helpful but not mandatory)