Mar 28, 2024  
2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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CS 3830 - Economics of Cybersecurity (3)

Focuses on the underlying economic factors of cybersecurity and highlights the incidents of security failures that happen due to misaligned incentives rather than to the lack of suitable technical protection mechanisms. Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to understand the complex linkages between security decisions and economic arguments. Topics include economic perspective of cybersecurity, cultural perspective of cybersecurity, economics of privacy, economics of malware, economics of authentication, the information security business, economics of vulnerabilities, copyrights and rights management, cybercrime cost measurement, theoretical models, forensic economics. Prerequisite(s): CS 1800 .



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