Product security goes beyond the traditional information security CIA triad of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and includes the expectation that products are secure. In this class cybersecurity is applied to hardware and software across the board with a focus on embedded systems and preventing malicious access and use. Over the last few years there has been an increase of concern regarding cybersecurity, systems, and software, especially with the Internet of Things expansion of massive interconnectivity.

In this course students learn the fundamentals of cryptography, which is a necessary tool for protecting information in computer systems. Topics include security and cryptography, stream and block ciphers, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, public key infrastructure (PKI) encryption, public key encryption, hash functions, digital signatures, and digital certificates.

Threat modeling is an essential skill for any type of security professional. This course is designed to give students a practical understanding of threat modeling, covering not only the theory but immediately applicable tools and techniques including a focus on Attack Trees. Using attack trees to model threats is one of the most widely applied techniques used in threat modeling in the security development life cycle and in the overall software and systems design process. Attack trees are diagrams that depict attacks on a system in tree form. In this course students learn about threat modeling using a variety of modeling approaches including attack trees and attack libraries.