CSCI-532: INTRODUCTION TO INTELLIGENT SECURITY SYSTEMS

RIT Department of Computer Science

Catalogue Description

The course will introduce students into the current state of an application of intelligent methodologies in computer security and information assurance systems design. It will review different application areas such as intrusion detection and monitoring systems, access control and biological authentication, firewall structure and design. The students will be required to implement a course project on design of a particular security tool with an application of an artificial intelligence methodology and to undertake its performance analysis. (CSCI-331 Introduction to Intelligent Systems or CSCI-351 Data Communications and Networks I or Permission of the instructor)

Class 2.5, Lab 0.5, Credit 3 (Fall)

Course Outcomes

• Students will be able to advance their theoretical knowledge of artificial intelligence methodologies in practical security system design (supports program outcomes 3, 5 & 7) Evaluation: Assessed by project design, mid-term test
• Students will be able to learn the structure and design concepts of fundamental computer security systems and tools.  (supports program outcomes 2 and 3) Evaluation: Assessed by mid-term test, homework assignment
• Students will be able to advance their communication and presentation skills.  (supports program outcome 6) Evaluation:

Instructor Contact

Leon Reznik, PhD
Professor of Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
102 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester NY 14623 USA

Ph.: 585 475 7210
Fax: 585 475 7100
email: lr@cs.rit.edu
http: //www.cs.rit.edu/~lr

Course Policies

This course will be taught in a blended mode: the class meeting time will be reduced but the students will have to spend more time on working online and independantly.

Mycourses course page will be utilized extensively for the course work.

Required Materials

Textbook: J.M. Kizza, Computer Network Security, Springer

Additional Resources

Websites: Computer Security Resource Center of NIST http://csrc.nist.gov/, CERT Coordination Center at CMU http://www.cert.org

Grading

• Rescheduling an Exam

• Course Withdrawal

• Disability Services

• Academic Integrity

updated: Monday April 16 12:08:00 EDT 2012