CPEN 418 — Security in Computer Systems
Computer Engineering · University of Ghana
History and overview of computer systems security, reasons for studying security in computer systems, modern trends in computer systems security, role of computer system security in computer engineering. Security risk identification: Descriptive account of the value and cost of acquiring information, privacy and integrity, risk assessment and management, information flow and covert channels, malicious software, analysis of the threat to information security. Protection of computer systems: Coding and cryptography, authentication methods, capabilities, access list and protection domain, standards, principles of security audit and control methods, physical and electronic counter measures to minimize threats, legal factors, database and inference control, security kernels, verification methods. Modeling: Algorithm design, modeling and optimization of secure communication networks, introduction to principles of network management
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
Other courses on this programme
- CPEN 400 — Independent Project
- CPEN 401 — Control Systems Analysis and Design
- CPEN 402 — Advanced Computer Architecture
- CPEN 403 — Embedded Systems (rerequisites: CPEN 303)
- CPEN 404 — Computer Vision and Robotics
- CPEN 405 — Artificial Intelligence
- CPEN 406 — Wireless Communication Systems
- CPEN 407 — Software Engineering (rerequisites: CPEN 207)
- CPEN 408 — Human-Computer Interface
- CPEN 409 — Computer Graphics
- CPEN 411 — VLSI Systems Design
- CPEN 412 — Web Software Architecture
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).