DATA 599: Topics: Cybersecurity

Spring 2024, Willamette University

Wednesday, Portland Center

Syllabus

Instructor

Calvin Deutschbein

ckdeutschbein@willamette.edu

Course Description

Cybersecurity can be understood as a mindset or approach rather than a subfield of computer science, such as secure mobile computing, network and operating system security, secure data bases, and secure cryptography algorithms. This course prepares a general audience to incorporate security concepts and ethics into their daily lives and offers some basic familiarity with writing security oriented code.

Key Dates

Week of 3/13: Midterm Exam(tentative)

Week of 3/22: Spring Break

Week Lecture HW
01 (17 Jan) ❄️
02 (24 Jan) Threat Threat Model
03 (31 Jan) Properties
04 (07 Feb) Specifications Diagram
05 (14 Feb) Logics
06 (21 Feb) Automata Mid Homework
07 (28 Feb) Partition
08 (06 Mar) Guest Practice Midterm Exam
09 (13 Mar) Exam
10 (20 Mar) Automata in R Automata in R
11 (27 Mar) Spring Break
12 (03 Apr) CIA
13 (10 Apr) Guest, maybe entropy
14 (17 Apr) RSA
15 (24 Apr) Data Science After Dark
Final Proj LTL in R due May 8 10PM