CSE546 (AC) : 4 credits
Applied Cryptography
Pre-requisites: Discrete Mathematics and C Programming
A wide array of communication and data protections employ cryptographic mechanisms. This course explores modern cryptographic (code making) and cryptanalytic (code breaking) techniques in detail. This course emphasizes how cryptographic mechanisms can be effectively used within larger security systems, and the dramatic ways in which cryptographic mechanisms can fall vulnerable to cryptanalysis in deployed systems. Topics covered include cryptographic primitives such as symmetric encryption, public key encryption, digital signatures, and message authentication codes; cryptographic protocols, such as key exchange, remote user authentication, and interactive proofs; cryptanalysis of cryptographic primitives and protocols, such as by side-channel attacks, differential cryptanalysis, or replay attacks; and cryptanalytic techniques on deployed systems, such as memory remanence, timing attacks, and differential power analysis.

CSE645 (DSF) : 4 credits
Digital and Cyber Forensics
Pre-requisites:
Host-Based Forensics provides a systematic introduction to the field of digital forensics. The course aims to familiarize students with the forensic process and to apply forensic principles with many tools of the trade. Upon completion of this course, a student should feel confident in participating in a digital forensic investigation. This course focuses on the forensic process (planning, acquisition, analysis, reporting) as it relates to host system forensics. This course will also concentrate on providing introduction to cyber crime and on the collection and analysis of evidence left on the cyber world. A student will feel comfortable with the full scope of a cyber forensic investigation. Class periods will consist of lecture and exercise. Students will learn about the data types that may have forensic value; and will be introduced to several techniques for capturing data off the network and how each option impacts the data that is available. Students will be further presented with several incident response challenges on live networks and be tasked with determining and proving what happened. They will have to collect various logs, network traffic, create timelines, and draw conclusions.

CSE530 (DIST) : 4 credits
Distributed Systems Security (Graduate)
Pre-requisites: Operating Systems, Networking
The aims of this course are to study the fundamental characteristics of distributed systems, including their models and architectures; the implications for software design; some of the techniques that have been used to build them; and the resulting details of good distributed algorithms and applications.

CSE545 (SECURITY) : 4 credits
Foundations of Computer Security (Graduate)
Pre-requisites: Computer Networks, Operating Systems
This course provides a principled introduction to techniques for defending against hostile adversaries in modern computer systems and computer networks. Topics covered in the course include operating system security; network security, including cryptography and cryptographic protocols, firewalls, and network denial-of-service attacks and defenses; user authentication technologies; security for network servers; web security; and security for mobile code technologies, such as Java and JavaScript. More advanced topics will additionally be covered as time permits, such as: intrusion detection; techniques to provide privacy in Internet applications; and protecting digital content (music, video, software) from unintended use.

CSE647 (MCNS) : 4 credits
Mobile and Cellular Network Security
Pre-requisites: Computer Networks
Cellular phones and their supporting networks now represent the most widely available computing and communications technologies. The number of user of these networks outnumbers the number of users of conventional desktops and laptops. The objective of this course is to understand how these systems function and the security challenges facing them. This course provides an in-depth investigation into security issues in areas including cellular air interfaces, core networking (SS7, IMS), cellular data networking, and mobile device architectures. The course will focus more on security aspect of technologies including GSM, CDMA and futuristic LTE.

CSE500 (SC) : 4 credits
Secure Coding
Pre-requisites: C/C++/Java
This class takes a close look at software as a mechanism for attack, as a tool for protecting resources, and as a resource to be defended. Some topics to be included are secure coding rules and recommendations (Examples in C, C++ and Java will be included for each, if applicable), security in the software development life-cycle, secure development principles, tools for static & dynamic analysis, & hacking tools.