Mar 04, 2026  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

CMSC 4083 - Cybersecurity


This course introduces the foundations of cybersecurity. Topics include cyber threats, security principles and goals, security policies and mechanisms, access control, encryption and decryption techniques, cryptographic hash function, cryptographic protocols and practices, public-key infrastructure, operating system and software security, and legal and ethical issues in cybersecurity.  

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisites: CMSC 2613  AND (STAT 2103  OR STAT 2113  OR STAT 4113 )