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Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EC 471 - Information Systems Security

3 cr.


(Prerequisite: OIM 471  or permission of instructor)

The course provides students with a basic understanding of the technical, managerial, legal and ethical issues of information security.  Topics include cryptographic systems, IP concepts and behavior, Internet and systems threat assessment, secure transactions and payments, antivirus tools, password management and cracking, and system auditing. Students will largely utilize Microsoft Windows platforms, but other operating systems will be discussed.  (Credits cannot be earned for EC 471 and ACC 476 )