ECE 5585 - Information Technology Security and Trust (3C)

Fundamental Internet and computer security principles and applications; legal and privacy issues, risk analysis, attack tecniques, intrusion detection concepts, basic computer forensics, and system and application security hardening techniques. MIT Students Only (Master of Information Technology).

This class teaches Masters of Information Technology (MIT) students how to properly test computer systems, networks or applications for compliance with the laws, regulations, and policies enacted local, state, and federal governments. The requisite knowledge of these fundamental security concepts provides the student with the necessary background to enhance their academic and practical knowledge. The sequence also provdes the advanced trustworthy network concept required to be able to synthesize elements from networking, security, privacy and trust concepts, protocols and technology to affect defense-in-depth in modern computing and network systems, and to engineer and evaluate relevant security and trust solutions.