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Master of course will expose students to the In this course the students Cybersecurity. Topics may include doing so, students will learn methods for instance, sensors, social media,
for critically reading research
study the main phases of ethical
design and implementation of
web applications, ERP systems,
latest and recent techniques for
Science in securing information and its systems, hacking and penetration testing, advanced cryptosystems for high- papers, identifying research gaps, mobile applications, transportation
including reconnaissance, scanning,
through understanding the best
systems, and others. Acquiring,
selecting interesting research topics,
performance applications such
storing, processing, modeling, and
formulating research questions,
enumeration, gaining access,
as low power mobile devices,
practices of management policies,
Cybersecurity procedures, methods and how to maintaining access, and covering cryptographic protocols for secure planning research methodology, visualizing this data encompass
and discussing and communicating
the tracks. The course covers oth-
online computation applications
apply the best auditing practices
various methods/techniques with
using variety of auditing tools and er topics related to hacking such such as evoting. We will cover research results in a convincing many challenges to be considered.
related technologies. Moreover, the as: malware, sniffers, and social advanced hacking techniques, way. Several research tools are The course walks the students
engineering. In addition, the course
through the Big Data process starting
course will help students to apply
presented to the students such as
complete computer system
Core Courses audit tools, and audit procedures introduces the students to various penetration testing and defenses. LaTeX, Mendeley, and SciVal through from data acquisition, and moving to
to help in detection and prevention types of security attacks such as: Further topics may include advanced practical tutorial sessions. storage, processing, analytics, and
CSE 501 – Cryptography and of security breaches and frauds. denial of service, session hijacking, wireless network security, enterprise visualization. Throughout the course
Network Security Students will be able to apply full SQL injection, and attacks on Web security architectures, mali-cious Elective Courses the students will learn the concepts,
risk management activities for
techniques, tools, and frameworks
code detection and prevention
servers and applications
Credit Hours: 3 information and systems under risk. systems, defense systems in depth, required to handle Big Data
Pre-requisite: Graduate Status CSE 512 – Advanced Cyber advanced software security, virtual throughout the Big Data process.
Students will have in depth view of Digital Forensics system and cloud computing ITE 501 – Cloud Computing Finally, by completing this course,
This course provides a clear and physical and infrastructure security Credit Hours: 3 security, and emerging technologies Credit Hours: 3 students will be able to design and
practical approach of both the through identifying, prevention, and such as quantum computing develop a Big Data solution using
principles and practice of crypto- mitigating such threats. Tools such as Pre-requisite: Graduate Status and cryptography. Students will Pre-requisite: Graduate Status the techniques, methods, and
protocols and network security. The IDS, IPS, firewalls, ACLs and different The main purpose of this course do practical exercises and tasks Cloud computing provides highly technologies introduced throughout
emphasis is on applications that network types of protections, us to emphasize the fundamentals throughout the unit. The content elastic scalability in delivery of the course.
are widely used on the Internet for including remote and wireless and importance of digital forensics. of the course and the subjects vary enterprise applications. This course
corporate networks. Topics covered in communications. Human resources Students will learn different depending on the market demand, provides comprehensive knowledge ITE 510 – Advanced Data
this course include network security security is also introduced in this procedures and techniques that instructor back-ground and students’ about cloud computing concepts Communication and Computer
concepts such as data integrity, course to show the different policies will enable them to perform a interest in the subject. and capabilities across various Networks
confidentiality, and availability. The that need to be implemented. In this digital investigation. Students will Cloud service models including Credit Hours: 3
course will also cover other important course, students should become develop an understanding of the ITE 503 – Research Methods and Infrastructure as a Ser-vice (IaaS),
topics related to network security, familiar with all legal and ethical fundamentals associated with Communications Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Pre-requisite: Graduate Status
such as encryption (symmetric and aspects that help them to conduct the topologies, protocols, and Credit Hours: 3 Software as a Service (SaaS). This The course covers advanced
asymmetric), cryptographic hash proper risk assessments and security applications required to conduct course will introduce students to communication networks and
functions, message authentication, auditing and to understand that the forensic analysis in a net-work Pre-requisite: Graduate Status basic concepts and principles of cloud presents in depth some topics such
digital signatures, key management strongly bonded these elements for environment. Students will learn The main purpose of the Research computing. The students will learn as advanced routing protocols,
and distribution, firewalls, IP security, successfully carrying out security risk data acquisition and duplication Methods and Communications new programming paradigms such advanced congestion control
email security and cloud security. assessments in this digital age. techniques using different forensic Course is to introduce students to as Node.js, JavaScript, REST API and techniques, Quality of Service, VPN
The practical component of this CSE 511 – Advanced Ethical tools to acquire the evidence from the process of scientific research benefits and challenges as well as Networks and Tunneling Protocols,
course will provide the students Hacking and Penetration hard disks and different file systems. and equip them with the necessary tradeoffs for using the cloud services. and network management. The
with the skills to install, troubleshoot Testing Students will learn how to conduct knowledge and tools to formulate The course will teach students how course also covers recent research
and monitor network devices to Credit Hours: 3 computer, network, web, database, research problems, evaluate related to utilize the cloud services such work for securing networks. In
maintain integrity, confidentiality, mobile, cloud and malware forensics. research works, and design a suitable IBM Cloud and Amazon (AWS). addition, this course provides an
and availability of data. The course Pre-requisite: Graduate Status They will also learn the importance of research methodology as well as Other topics such as programming in-depth understanding of existing
concludes upon the topic of legal and This course introduces the legal considerations, digital evidence communicate their ideas effectively models (MapReduce and Hadoop), network technologies such sensor
ethical aspects of computer security fundamental concepts of ethical controls, and documentation of through different mediums in a virtualization, storage, and distributed networks, MANETs, VANETs and their
including cybercrime, intellectual hacking methodology, practical forensic procedures. This course will scientifically convincing manner. The file systems will be covered as well applications. The course also covers
property, privacy, and ethical issues techniques, and ethics. The focus of incorporate demonstrations and course starts by defining scientific ITE 504 – Big Data Analytics new emerging networks such as
research and identifying its essential
laboratory exercises to reinforce
SASE, IoT/Edge Networks, 5G and its
CSE 502 – Security Risk the course is to introduce students practical applications of course. elements, then takes the students Credit Hours: 3 successor 6G, etc.
Assessment and Auditing to the methodology and tools CSE 530 – Advanced Selected through a progressive journey Pre-requisite: Graduate Status ITE 515 – Artificial Intelligence
necessary in order to assess the
Credit Hours: 3 security posture of the system under Topics in Cybersecurity through the different scientific This Big Data course focuses Credit Hours: 3
research phases such as problem
Pre-requisite Graduate Status study. The course utilizes Kali-Linux Credit Hours: 3 formulation, literature review, and on managing and processing,
and many other software tools that storing, and modeling massively Pre-requisite: Graduate Status
The aim of this course is to provide are usually used by a malicious Pre-requisite: Graduate Status methodology design. Several class
students with an overview about hacker to study the weaknesses and activities relevant to weekly topics large, versatile, continuous, and This course provides a comprehensive
security risk management, functions, vulnerabilities of a target systems. The course aims to provide students are planned to ensure a balance heterogeneous data retrieved introduction to artificial intelligence. It
from different sources including,
mechanisms, and auditing. The with an advanced knowledge of between theory and practice. In is intended to equip the students with
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