Registered for 2026
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Cyber Defense Fundamentals
This course introduces students to cyber security and defense. The course will primarily focus on cybersecurity theory, information protection and assurance, and computer systems and networks security. This course provides the essentials for understanding the security threats to information systems, the methods to counter these threats, and the state-of-the-art implementations and applications of cybersecurity systems. The objectives are to
- understand the basic security models, concepts, possible attacks, and cryptographic applications,
- learn basic mathematic knowledge and tools for building, analyzing, and attacking modern cryptographic systems,
- understand cryptographic algorithms for symmetrical encryption, public key encryption, hash function and digital signature,
- gain hands-on experience in implementing and applying cryptographic algorithms,
- understand security fundamental principles, and
- understand Internet security protocol and standards.
Course Material
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Entrepreneurship in Cybersecurity
This course is designed to help students enhance their personal and professional development through innovation guided by faculty members and professionals. It offers students an opportunity to integrate disciplinary theory and knowledge through developing a nonprofit program, product, business, or other initiative. The real-world experiences that entrepreneurships provide will help students understand how academic knowledge leads to transformations, innovations, and solutions to different types of problems.
After completing an entrepreneurship, a student/entrepreneur will be able to:
- Identify how to use knowledge they have accumulated from their general education and major coursework to create non-profit programs, products, businesses, or other innovations.
- Apply disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge to the process of innovation.
- Demonstrate the ability to integrate professional and interdisciplinary knowledge to produce new programs, products, businesses, or other innovations.
- Describe how products/businesses/programs related to their career interests are created and influenced by different disciplines.
- Assess the effectiveness of innovations
- Communicate effective solutions to societal problems to stakeholders.
Course Material
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