CS6308 - Cyber Physical Systems and Critical Infrastructure Security for Practitioners

CS 6308 Cyber Physical Systems and Critical Infrastructure Security for Practitioners (3 semester credit hours) The Stuxnet attack was a wake-up call to improve the security of our critical infrastructures, which include transportation networks, the power grid, and other cyber-physical systems, where computation, communications, and control are tightly integrated. This class covers the security of cyber-physical systems from a multi-disciplinary point of view, from computer science security research (network security and software security), to public policy (e.g., the Executive Order 13636), risk-assessment, business drivers, and control-theoretic methods to reduce the cyber-risk to cyber-physical critical infrastructures. Students are required to participate in several cyber war games. May not be used to satisfy degree requirements for the MS CS or the MS SE degree plans. (3-0) Y