CSCE 727: Information Warfare

CSCE 727: Information Warfare

Spring 2017

Instructor: Csilla Farkas

Class time: Tuesday, Thursday 11:40 am – 12:55 pm

Classroom: SWRG 2A11

Prerequisite(s) or corequisite(s): CSCE 522 or permission of instructor

Course objectives:

The objective of the course is to provide the students with an understanding of information warfare principles and technologies. This course is intended to be appropriate for a broad range of professionals interested in information security. The main units of the proposed course are: 1) basic information warfare concepts, 2) offensive information warfare, and 3) defensive information warfare. Vulnerability and risk analysis methods and current information warfare technologies are presented. In addition to cyber security, physical security, ethics, and legal considerations are also addressed during the course.

Basic Bibliography

Required:

· D. Denning: Information Warfare and Security (Addison Wesley, 1998, ISBN: 0201433036)

· Online reading assignments

Office Hours: Tuesday, Thursday 10:30 – 11:30 am; or by appointment

Syllabus

Lecture materials

Homework -- via Dropbox

· Homework 1: Due: January 19, 2017 midnight

· Homework 2: Due: January 23, 2017 midnight

· Homework 3: Due: February 23, 2017 midnight

· Homework 4: Due: March 7, 2017 midnight