Information Assurance Concentration

Faculty: Ken Dick, William Mahoney, Victor Winter, Quiming Zhu

The Information Assurance concentration focuses on the study, development, evaluation, and testing of security technologies to achieve secure data and information creation, storage, communication, sharing and maintenance. Students interested in Information Assurance are encouraged to declare a formal concentration by contacting the chair of the computer science graduate program committee.

Concentration Courses (choose four) - 12 Semester Hours

• CIST 8440 — Secure Systems Engineering
• CSCI 8366 — Foundations of Information Assurance
• CSCI 8410 — Distributed System and Network Security
• CSCI 8420 — Secure Information Systems Assurance
• CSCI 8430 — Trusted System Design, Analysis, and Development
• CSCI 8566 — Number Theory and Cryptography
• CSCI 8610 — Fault Tolerant Distributed Systems
• CSCI 8760 — Formal Methods and High Assurance Software Engineering

Elective Courses (choose one) - 3 Semester Hours

• CSCI 8150 — Advanced Computer Architecture
• CSCI 8210 — Advanced Communication Networks
• CSCI 9210 — Type Systems Behind Programming Languages
• ISQA 8560 — Information Warfare and Security
• ISQA 8570 — Information Security, Policy, and Ethics