Information Security

Our goals in this course are to:

• Learn what information security is, and why it is crucial to care about security.
• Understand how security breaches come into existence, and how/why attackers use such situations to bring harm.
• Equip ourselves with knowledge and tools on how to prevent security breaches, in the first place, from happening.

As a first step, let's define some terms, including our course title, Information Security.