Internet of Things and Cybersecurity

ENGT 58100

The internet has brought about the ability to embed computing into everyday devices to allow them to send and receive information. These devices, known as the Internet of Things (IoT), will require management at all levels to understand the inherent security risks due to the interconnection via the internet. Illegally accessing (hacking) IoT is increasingly becoming the most pervasive form of industrial espionage in use today. Understanding the threats aimed at IoT and how to protect IoT will be the key to keeping sensitive corporate information and secrets secure and private, and will require everyone’s participation, not just the IT department. For this course students will learn the basics of research of and into cybersecurity, and the techniques used to commit industrial related crimes; how to detect these potentially catastrophic crimes; and the means to protect one of the company’s most important assets…its systems and data.