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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

ECE 488 - Cyber Threats and Security Management

Credits 3
Lecture
Requirements: Prerequisites:CIS 370 or ECE 367
Fundamentals and practices in information assurance (IA) and cyber defense (CD). This course covers threats in the cyber realm, design principles to create trustworthy systems, and security lifecycle. Topics include threat models, attack surface, social engineering, vulnerability identification, risk assessment, and fail secure system design. Hands-on exercises will demonstrate the interaction between security and system usability as well as the effects of security mechanisms in specific scenarios.
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