Cybersecurity and Privacy

• Describe cybersecurity and privacy mechanisms, standards and state-of-the-art capabilities.
• Describe potential cyber attacks and the actors that might perform them, and apply cyber defense methods to prepare a system to repel attacks.
• Perform security review of applications, systems and infrastructure.
• Design and implement system, network and infrastructure-level solutions to ensure the security and privacy of communications and data against specific security threats, while understanding the trade-offs between security, usability and performance.
• Use standard security terminology to communicate effectively with other cybersecurity professionals.
• Understand the ethical and legal implications of cyber attacks.

Cryptography and Security

• Understand the difference between the symmetric key and public key cryptography approaches.

• Select appropriate symmetric and public key cryptography protocols for a given application.

• Develop an efficient implementation of a cryptographic protocol based on a Discrete Logarithm Problem, RSA (Factoring) Problem or Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem.

Security and Privacy in Computing

• Understand the various models to evaluate the security of computer systems.

• Interpret security guarantees and assess the level of security provided by a cryptographic protocol.

• Understand the various security goals for communication over an insecure network.

• Identify the appropriate types of cryptographic primitives that should be used to achieve each of these goals.

• Understand the advantages and limitations of using symmetric key versus public-key cryptography.

Network Protocols Security

• Identify the appropriate security primitives that should be used to achieve specific security goals for communication over insecure networks.

• Analyze the security of the main mechanisms used on the internet to secure communication between computer systems at various network layers, including physical, network, transport and application layers.

• Describe common attacks against wired and wireless network protocols using standard terminology, allowing them to communicate effectively with other security professionals.

• Completed application - NJIT accepts the Common Application for First-Year admission

• Application fee (or a College Board or other fee waiver)

• High school transcript

• SAT (use code 2513) or ACT (use code 2580) - see Test-Optional Admission Policy for Fall 2023

• Letter of recommendation

• Portfolio (for applicants who wish to attend the Hillier College of Architecture and Design) - see Admission and Portfolio Requirements