COSC 311 - Security, Privacy and Society

A survey of influential topics in computer security and privacy with an emphasis on how they affect individuals and societies. Security topics include applied cryptography, identity management, network security, website security, operating systems security, and side channel attacks. Privacy topics include web tracking, anonymous browsing, database (de)anonymization, mobile and IoT data collection, contextual integrity, useable privacy, and privacy regulation. Students learn technical details of security and privacy vulnerabilities and defenses, practice programming and testing computer systems to detect and prevent vulnerabilities, and discuss the influence of human behavior and societal factors on security and privacy.

Credits: 1.00
Corequisite:

COSC 311L

Prerequisites:

COSC 202

and

COSC 208

Major/Minor Restrictions: None
Class Restriction: None
Area of Inquiry: Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges or Quantitative and Algorithmic Reasoning
Core Component: None

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