• Pre CS-576
• Pre CS-577
• Pre CS-579

  Introduction

  The class will cover advanced network and host security concepts and mechanisms. The class will cover the subjects in theory and provide the students with an extensive hands-on experience: assessing vulnerabilities, writing real working exploits for existing systems in a closed and controlled environment, and developing countermeasures to these perceived and real threats, also in the form of projects. The class will involve a fair amount of programming. Those who take the class are expected to be able to program in C/C++, have some a solid knowledge of assembly language, and be familiar with network basics and programming, as well as modern operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Unix).

Teacher

David Pfeffer
ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Email: dpfeffer@stevens.edu

Education

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
Honors; Minor in Law and Public Policy
Masters of Science in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
4.0 GPA; Graduate Certificates in Computer Systems, Databases & Service Oriented Architecture, Distributed Systems, Enterprise Computing, Quantitative Software Engineering, Service Oriented Computing
Professional Societies
Member of the IEEE Computer Society and ACM.
Courses
CS 521 TCP/IP Networking
CS 570 Introduction to Programming, Data Structures, and Algorithms
CS 465 Selected Topics in Computer Science
SSW 810 Selected Topics in Systems Centric Software Engineering