Information Assurance & Security is becoming increasingly important in today's networked world and is impacting every aspect of society including finance, healthcare, government, education, arts and entertainment. Topics include motivation for security, tools and techniques used by adversaries to gather information and launch attacks, virus protection, secure credit card and bank transactions, wireless security, computer forensics, identity theft and protection, anti-phishing and biometric security.

This course introduces probability and statistics with applications. It demonstrates the use of descriptive and inferential statistics. The focus will be on basic probability models; discrete and continuous probability distributions; statistical estimation and testing; confidence interval and introduction to linear regression.