Curriculum

The Principles of Cryptography course introduces fundamental concepts in securing information through encryption and cryptographic protocols. It provides a foundation in both symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, exploring methods to protect data confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. Emphasis is placed on understanding the mathematical underpinnings of cryptographic techniques and applying them to real-world problems, including secure communications and digital privacy.

Database Fundamentals course introduces students to the essential concepts and structures of databases, focusing on how data is stored, organized, and managed. This course covers foundational principles of database design, data integrity, and efficient data retrieval. Students gain hands-on experience with database management systems, learning how to create, modify, and query databases effectively. By the end of the course, students will have a solid understanding of how databases support applications and decision-making in various fields.

Object-Oriented Programming course is a programming paradigm centered on the concepts of objects and classes, enabling efficient code organization and reusability. This course introduces students to the principles of OOP, such as encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism, to create modular and scalable software solutions. Through hands-on exercises, students learn to design, implement, and test software that models real-world scenarios, fostering skills essential for both small-scale applications and complex systems.

A Probability and Statistics course provides an introduction to the mathematical framework for analyzing uncertainty and data. Students gain the tools to model random events, understand variability, and make informed decisions based on data. The course aims to equip students with both the theoretical foundations and practical skills required to apply statistical reasoning to a wide range of situations.

The Computer Organization and Architecture course is designed to provide students with a deep understanding of how computers work at a hardware level. Students gain insight into the principles that govern the performance and efficiency of computer systems, which is essential for developing and optimizing modern computing technology. This course prepares students for further studies in system design and the integration of software and hardware.

Non-Technical Elective course allowing students to broaden their knowledge in areas outside their main field of study.

An Applied Cryptography course typically explores the principles and practices of cryptography in securing digital communications. It emphasizes the application of cryptographic techniques in real-world systems, providing students with a deep understanding of how cryptography contributes to securing information, ensuring privacy, and maintaining integrity in digital transactions. Students are exposed to both foundational and advanced cryptographic methods, learning how they are used to solve practical security challenges in various domains.

A Database Administration Security course is designed to provide students with the essential skills and knowledge required for managing and securing databases effectively. It focuses on the critical aspects of database design, maintenance, and protection, ensuring the privacy and integrity of stored data. The course equips students with a thorough understanding of security protocols, administration techniques, and the necessary tools for managing complex database systems securely. It aims to prepare individuals for handling the challenges of safeguarding data in both traditional and modern database environments.

This course aims to equip students with a strong foundation in fundamental programming concepts, focusing on data structures and algorithms. Its primary goal is to teach students how to choose and design suitable data structures and algorithms for solving various problems they may face. The course also covers demonstrating algorithm correctness and analyzing their computational complexity. Students will gain a blend of theoretical understanding and hands-on practice.

Discrete Mathematics is a mathematical field that focuses on the study of structures that are fundamentally discrete, rather than continuous. It provides essential tools for solving problems in areas like computer science. This area of study forms the foundation for analyzing algorithms, computing processes, and digital systems. Through its focus on finite systems, it equips students with the mathematical reasoning necessary to approach complex problems in various technical fields.

The Operating Systems (OS) course is regarded as a core subject for any undergraduate program related to computer science. Designed for information technology students, this course provides foundational knowledge on OS concepts and functions, focusing on the basics without delving into advanced OS topics.

Non-Technical Elective course allowing students to broaden their knowledge in areas outside their main field of study.

This course covers the fundamentals of cyber-physical systems and their security aspects. Introducing the architecture of cyber-physical systems, exploiting software vulnerabilities and secure coding practices are parts of the main objectives of this course. In addition, microservices and cloud services security, security evaluation of cyber-physical systems and data analytics for cybersecurity are also included in this course.

This course provides introductory topics and challenges in mobile security, including threats to mobile devices, networks and services over the mobile infrastructure. Topics include security attacks and mechanisms for safeguarding mobile systems through secure coding, cryptography, and implementing protocols for secure communication. In addition, this course covers security principles incorporated in the design of different generations of mobile networks and security models of mobile device platforms including IOS, Android, and the Windows Phone.

This course is intended to provide an in-depth exploration of Internet and computer networks concepts, technologies and protocols. Topics include networking architecture and IT infrastructure, such as TCP/IP, data transmission concepts, network security, computing infrastructure and managerial issues. The principles of IP addressing and main concepts of Ethernet, media and operations are also covered in the course.

This course is designed to address the foundational knowledge on administration of servers and their security concerns. Topics include fundamentals of server operating system administration, automating management tasks, evaluating and improving the performance of servers, assessing security threats and tools required to protect data and services.

This course provides fundamental principles of web technologies. The course focuses on the web development and management components including programming languages and required tools for developing dynamic feature-rich websites. Students will learn both the front-end web development languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript; as well as the back-end web development scripting such as PHP and SQL.

A technical elective course allowing students to deepen their knowledge in specific areas of cybersecurity and information technology.

This course is designed to give students a broad understanding of cloud computing and its technologies and services as well as security and privacy issues of cloud services. Principles of cloud computing, its architecture, deployment models and different cloud platforms and services offered by most cloud providers are among the main topics covered in this course.

This course provides an in-depth exploration of Internet of Things (IoT) concepts and its security and privacy challenges. With rapid deployment of IoT technology and smart devices in almost all industries, the security and privacy aspects of IoT applications have become of imperative concern. This course's topics include fundamentals of IoT concepts, vulnerabilities in IoT architectures, and security protocols and privacy issues in IoT applications.

This course is designed to address network security issues and undertaking solution implementations for securing networking environments. Students will learn the fundamentals of the security of network infrastructure and services, network attacks methodologies and defensive tools such as firewalls, VPNs and IDS to set up secure networks.

This course aims to enhance the students' understanding of the principles and practices of digital investigation. Topics include fundamentals of cyber forensics and different methods and procedures to perform a digital investigation. Students will learn the main phases of cyber investigations, such as analyzing and acquiring evidence on physical storage media, mobile devices, network facilities and digital communication tools.

This course provides a foundational knowledge of the development of web applications and their related security issues as well as security standards. Topics include web applications' common vulnerabilities, protection mechanisms, security testing, authentication and authorization, and development of secure web applications.

This course aims to enable students to recognize types of web application threats and to implement security approaches in web application development that protects them from potential web threats.

A technical elective course allowing students to deepen their knowledge in specific areas of cybersecurity and information technology. Students can choose from a variety of specialized topics to enhance their expertise in their areas of interest.

This course is intended to introduce students to qualitative and quantitative methods for conducting scientific research. Topics include the main steps in the procedure of conducting research, such as formulation of the research problem, literature review, scientific writing and presentations. Students will gain skills to develop a research problem, frame the problem with proper research methodology, collect data and analyze it using various statistical methods and write academic research.

This course provides fundamentals of wireless networks, their administrative aspects and security concerns. Topics include wireless system vulnerabilities, passive and active wireless attacks, wireless hardware security, security aspects of wireless communications, detecting wireless intrusions and wireless network administration and management. In addition, students will gain knowledge on mobile IP security, GSM, 3G, 4G and 5G protocols and administrative tasks such as wireless network and server configurations.

This course will provide students with the principles of social engineering, recognizing different types of social engineering attacks and analyzing tools and techniques to defend against such attacks. Students will understand the importance of social engineering and will learn the main social engineering attacks through different media and how to successfully apply strategies to protect people, devices and network from such attacks.

This course aims to enhance students' professional development through enabling them to apply the acquired knowledge from university in real life industrial projects. This course provides an opportunity for students to improve their practical skills through conducting industrial projects in the labor market. Additionally, the course helps students to develop their interpersonal, teamwork and problem-solving skills.

A technical elective course allowing students to deepen their knowledge in specific areas of cybersecurity and information technology.

A technical elective course allowing students to deepen their knowledge in specific areas of cybersecurity and information technology.

This course focuses on conducting an academic project, known as graduation project, by students as one of the important requirements for the completion of undergraduate degrees. Each student or group of students, supervised by a faculty member, is required to conduct a project by applying the knowledge and skills they have acquired throughout undergraduate courses. Students will learn the main stages in conducting a graduation project, such as identifying the problem, literature review, the project implementation and results.

This course is designed to address the foundational knowledge on E-governments and strategies to implement e-governance with focus on security issues. Since government information, services and procedures are publicized online in an e-government scenario, their security concerns and policies to ensure security and privacy are of paramount importance. This course will provide students with skills to enable them to identify IT security risks in the public sector and apply required techniques to analyze and manage such security issues in e-governments.

This course aims to provide students with a foundational knowledge on cybersecurity risks and exposure, risk assessments, and tools for controlling and managing risks. In addition to exploring the principles and tools behind risk analysis for security, realistic case studies are provided to students to gain a comprehensive understanding of risk management in cybersecurity field with a focus on risk, recovery and response. Topics include identifying attacks and vulnerabilities, risk management plans and risk assessment approaches, analyzing risk mitigation security controls and planning risk mitigation.

A technical elective course allowing students to deepen their knowledge in specific areas of cybersecurity and information technology.

A technical elective course allowing students to deepen their knowledge in specific areas of cybersecurity and information technology.