SOFE 4840U – Software and Computer Security

Introduction to software security, managing software security risk, selecting technologies open vs. closed source, principles of software security, auditing software, buffer overflows, access control, authorization and authentication, race conditions, randomness and determinism, applying cryptography, trust management and input validation, law and ethics of IT security, security at the operating system and network level. Firewalls, intrusion detection.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Laboratory hours: 3 (biweekly)
Prerequisite(s): SOFE 3850U and SOFE 4790U