This combined lecture and laboratory course covers topics such as disk geometry and organization. Master boot sector record and volume record creation and organization, file signatures for data type identification, cyclic redundancy checksum for data integrity validation, and RSA's MD5 hash values for file authentication. The course introduces students to loss control theory with an analysis of threat models to develop comprehensive protection plans for organizations. This combined lecture and laboratory course focuses on security threats to an organization's data network such as hackers, intruders, industrial espionage and sabotage, fraud and theft. The components of computer security architecture are studied as well as the principles of security networking protocols, encryption, fault tolerance techniques, and file system protection.
Additional topics covered include the protection of computer hardware and software.
The course will review the OSI model and describe how systems communicate with one another. Also included in the course is a detailed study of authentication technologies and how they are used to secure an organization's assets and electronic transactions. This course focuses on the computer security audit and policy formulation process. Topics covered include e-mail, messaging, employee use of the Internet and work group security issues. Other topics examined are the National Information Infrastructure Protection Act, the Communications Decency Act, and the Communications Privacy Act.