IT PhD Qualifying Exams (Information Security and Assurance)

Information Security Theory and Practice
Primary courses: ISA 562 - Information Security Theory and Practice
(Revised from ISA 662: Information System Security)
Primary Textbook:  
Topics Descriptions Reading
Cryptography Symmetric encryption, Asymmetric encryption, Asymmetric signatures and key exchange, Symmetric MACs
Digital Certificates Digital Certificates
Cryptographic Protocols SSL and Kerberos
Access Control Access Control LBAC RBAC
    Role-Based Access Control Models, Ravi Sandhu, Edward Coyne, Hal Feinstein and Charles Youman, IEEE Computer, Volume 29, Number 2, February 1996, pages 38-47.
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Effective Fall 2007.
PhD concentration in:  
 Go to PhD in IT (concentration in Information Systems)  Information Systems
 Go to PhD in IT (concentration in Information Security)  Information Security
 Go to PhD in IT (concentration in Software Engineering)  Software Engineering
 
Course Descriptions:  
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PhD Qualifying Exams in:  
 Go to PhD Qualifying Exams in INFS  INFS
 Go to PhD Qualifying Exams in ISA  ISA
 Go to PhD Qualifying Exams in SWE  SWE