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including reconnaissance, scanning, initiative and independent thinking; maintain integrity, confidentiality,
enumeration, gaining access, (b) involve both knowledge gained and availability of data. The course
maintaining access, and covering the through coursework and skills concludes upon the topic of legal and
tracks. The course covers other topics acquired during the conduct of the ethical aspects of computer security
related to hacking such as: malware, M.Sc. thesis research; (c) demonstrate including cybercrime, intellectual
sniffers, and social engineering. In the ability to carry out a major piece property, privacy, and ethical issues.
addition, the course introduces the of work according to sound scientific
students to various types of security and engineering principles; (d) CSE 502 - Security Risk
attacks such as: denial of service, organize work in a comprehensive Assessment and Auditing
session hijacking, SQL injection, and well-structured report, and (e) Credit hours: 3
and attacks on Web servers and demonstrate the ability to defend Prerequisite: Graduate status
applications. assumptions, methodology, and
significance and impact of work. The The aim of this course is to provide
ITE 515 - Artificial Intelligence thesis consists of two successive students with an overview about
Credit hours: 3 courses A and B. In the first part security risk management, functions,
Prerequisite: Graduate status (ITE591A) the students are expected mechanisms, and auditing. The
to select and advisor, write a course will expose students to the
This course provides a proposal and defend their proposal latest and recent techniques for
comprehensive introduction to successfully. While in the second part securing information and its systems,
artificial intelligence. It is intended to (ITE591B) students are expected to through understanding the best
equip the students with theoretical complete their thesis work including practices of management policies,
and hands-on practical knowledge defending it successfully and writing procedures, methods and how to
necessary to analyze and understand at least one original conference/ apply the best auditing practices
different aspects related to modern journal paper for publication. using variety of auditing tools and
AI systems. Topics covered include related technologies. Moreover, the
intelligent agents’ design, search and course will help students to apply
optimization algorithms, machine Elective Courses audit tools, and audit procedures
learning (ML), deep learning (DL), to help in detection and prevention
natural language processing of security breaches and frauds.
(NLP), and recommender systems CSE 501 - Cryptography and Students will be able to apply full
(RecSys). The course utilizes variety Network Security risk management activities for
of learning and assessment tools Credit hours: 3 information and systems under risk.
including practical labs, case-study Prerequisite: Graduate status
analysis, and research paper writing. Students will have in depth view of
By completing this course, the This course provides a clear and physical and infrastructure security
students will be able to analyze the practical approach of both the through identifying, prevention, and
requirements for real-life AI systems, principles and practice of crypto- mitigating such threats. Tools such as
design them using the Rational protocols and network security. The IDS, IPS, firewalls, ACLs and different
Agent Design Framework, implement emphasis is on applications that network types of protections,
them by applying advanced learning, are widely used on the Internet for including remote and wireless
search, or optimization algorithms, corporate networks. Topics covered in communications. Human resources
and evaluate them using different this course include network security security is also introduced in this
evaluation tools and techniques concepts such as data integrity, course to show the different policies
presented in the course. confidentiality, and availability. The that need to be implemented. In this
course, students should become
ITE 591 - Master’s Thesis in course will also cover other important familiar with all legal and ethical
topics related to network security,
Information Technology such as encryption (symmetric and aspects that help them to conduct
Credit hours: 9 asymmetric), cryptographic hash proper risk assessments and security
Prerequisite: 15 credits functions, message authentication, auditing and to understand that the
strongly bonded these elements for
digital signatures, key management
Thesis is a comprehensive integrated and distribution, firewalls, IP security, successfully carrying out security risk
project that brings together email security and cloud security. assessments in this digital age.
knowledge, skills, and competencies The practical component of this
developed during the program. course will provide the students
Thesis requirements: (a) the thesis with the skills to install, troubleshoot
should exhibit elements of creativity, and monitor network devices to

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