EMTM 604: Information Technology Security and Privacy

Companies need executive-level leaders who can manage complex decisions about security and privacy vulnerabilities — taking into account emerging technologies, existing information infrastructure, corporate policies and procedures, client requirements and preferences and international law and regulation.

This course is designed to elevate corporate competence with security and privacy so that it brings value to a business. Topics include: wireless, global security and privacy threats, strategies and technologies for protection, tools for maintaining vigilance and protection, databases and application programs, privacy issues for browsers and the laws and regulations that pertain to international corporations.

Participants gain fluency with: techniques for cryptography (public and private key exchange); Digital Rights Management (DRM); Internet Protocols for Security (IPsec); Virtual Private Networks (VPNs); web transaction security technologies such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and certificates; firewall technologies such as Java Sandbox; and ways to protect companies from viruses and rogue attack codes such as Script Kiddies.

Students with extensive IT experience will gain skills that help them shift into roles as decision-makers and project leaders. Business leaders without IT background will learn concepts that are critical to managing IT-related security vulnerabilities and addressing privacy-related issues.

Class format: lectures by professor plus guest lectures from academic and corporate security and privacy experts, reading assignments, paper, group project and regular logbook entries (reflecting how course concepts relate to workplace security and privacy challenges). Instruction is customized to participants' current privacy and security concerns, using student logbook entries as a tool for maintaining relevance and active application of concepts.

Prerequisites: EMTM 601 Software Engineering required. EMTM 608 Human Computer Interaction recommended.

Professor: Gregg Vesonder
Gregg Vesonder, PhD, is the Director of the Communication Software Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research. He also is Adjunct Professor of Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering, and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stevens Institute of Technology. [more]

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