CSIT 204 — Introduction to Information Security
Computer Science · University of Ghana
This course introduces concept of information security. Discusses the need for organizational policy to define required services such as confidentiality, authentication, integrity, nonrepudiation, access control, and availability, and mechanisms to implement those services. Topics Include: Cover different types of security including physical security, computer security, and network security; common threats to and attacks against information systems, including accidental damage, identity theft, malicious software, and ―spam‖; and defensive measures.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
Other courses on this programme
- CSCD 201 — Information Systems
- CSCD 202 — Programming II (with Java)
- CSCD 205 — Programming I (with C ++)
- CSCD 207 — Numerical Methods
- CSCD 211 — Computer Organization and Architecture
- CSCD 212 — Computer Ethics
- CSCD 214 — Digital Electronics
- CSCD 216 — Data Structures & Algorithms
- CSCD 218 — Data Communication & Networking I
- CSIT 201 — Professional, Legal, Moral and ethical issues in IT
- CSIT 202 — Introduction to Computer Networks
- CSIT 203 — Computer Hardware Fundamentals
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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).