COS 430 -- Introduction to Cybersecurity

COS 430 -- Spring 2009
George Markowsky
University of Maine

GOALS

  1. To provide you with a broad view of cybersecurity as information security.
  2. To provide you with a general view of security, so that you understand how cybersecurity fits into this more general picture.
  3. To help you understand that cybersecurity is as much a problem of people and institutions as it is a technical problem.
  4. To help you better understand the nature of the attacks and attackers that you might face.
  5. To provide you with some basic tools and techniques for defending yourself from cyberattacks.
  6. To help you get acquainted with basic sources that you will need to use to effectively work in cybersecurity.

PREREQUISITES

COS 230, COS 431 and one semester of programming.

TEXTS

The texts for the course are Hands-On Ethical Hacking and Network Defense by Michael T. Simpson (Thompson Course Technology, 2006), and Practical Unix & Internet Security, Third Edition by Simon Garfinkel, Gene Spafford & Alan Schwartz (O'Reilly 2003).

SYLLABUS

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

UNIX ACCOUNT FORM

NETWORK SETTINGS

HOMEWORK -- 2009

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