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Security is the study of controlling access to information in the presence of adversarial behavior. Any system connected to the internet must deal with the potential of attacks. With a concentration in security, you will develop a proactive, defensive mindset and learn how to design systems that are resistant to compromise.
Potential Job Opportunities
- Security operations center (SOC) analyst: monitor and detect security incidents, analyze and coordinate responses across groups
- Security/information assurance engineer: identify security requirements for a system and design architectures, policies, and monitoring strategies that achieve them
- System security administrator: monitor systems for security-related incidents, maintain system updates, enforce security policies
- Penetration tester: perform mock attacks (with authorization) in an effort to identify and responsibly disclose possible security vulnerabilities
Faculty
- Houssam Abbas
- Rakesh Bobba
- Glencora Borradaile
- Bechir Hamdaoui
- Sanghyun Hong
- Vincent Immler
- Yeongjin Jang
- Mike Rosulek
- Jiayu Xu
Courses
CORE
- CS 321 (Intro to Theory of Computation)
- CS 370 (Intro to Security)
- CS 373 (Defense Against the Dark Arts)
- CS 427 (Cryptography)
- CS 478 (Network Security)
ELECTIVES
- CS 312 (Linux System Administration)
- CS 434 (Machine Learning and Data Mining)
- CS 440 (Database Management Systems)
- CS 472 (Computer Architecture)
- CS 476 (Advanced Computer Networking)
- CS 493 (Cloud Application Development) – cannot be combined with CS 496
- MTH 341 (Linear Algebra I)
- MTH 440 (Computational Number Theory)
- MTH 451 (Numerical Linear Algebra)
- MTH 452 (Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations)
- MTH 453 (Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations)