CY2550: Foundations of Cybersecurity

Foundations of Cybersecurity (CY2550) is the class I have been most excited about thus far. For once, instead of studying cybersecurity on my own and trying to navigate the mass of information out there, I would be given structure- a clear learning path. Though I didn’t learn a lot of new concepts, it was a great reinforcement of my previous knowledge. The genuinely fun assignments made me excited to continue progressing through my cybersecurity degree; I can’t wait to take more challenging cyber classes.

Here are some of the domains we covered:

• History of cybersecurity
• Threat Modeling
• Cryptography
• Authentication
• Access Control
• Systems Security
• Web Privacy
• Exploits
• Cyberlaw