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2023-2024 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
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CS 471 - Security and Information Assurance


Units: 3
Fundamentals of network and computer security.  Security services and mechanisms, models, cryptography, network and wireless security, digital forensics, security threats and vulnerabilities, risk analysis and management models, security attacks and policies, and legal and regulatory issues. Programming projects.

Prerequisites: CS 301 with grade C- or better.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1. Analyze a security problem, and identify and define the computing requirements appropriate to its solution;
  2. Understand professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and responsibilities;
  3. Apply current security and information assurance techniques, skills, and tools necessary for computing practice;
  4. Use current security and information assurance technical concepts and practices in the core information technologies;
  5. Understand best practices for security and information assurance standards and their application;
  6. Demonstrate communication skills in both the written and oral form, and work in a team environment;
  7. Independently and collaboratively acquire new network security skills through analysis of current computer science literature and industrial practices.




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