CS 165: COMPUTER SECURITY
University of California, Riverside
4 Units, Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): CS 141, CS 153. Examines the ways in which information systems are vulnerable to security breaches. Topics include attacks; security labels, lattices, and policies; safeguards and countermeasures; intrusion detection; authorization and encryption techniques; networks; digital signatures, certificates, and passwords; privacy issues, firewalls, and spoofing; Trojan horses and computer viruses; CERT Coordination Center; and electronic commerce.
Average GPA: 2.96
Grade distribution records: 950 students across 19 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 56 | 5.9% |
| A | 148 | 15.6% |
| A- | 96 | 10.1% |
| B+ | 120 | 12.6% |
| B | 149 | 15.7% |
| B- | 114 | 12.0% |
| C+ | 89 | 9.4% |
| C | 66 | 6.9% |
| C- | 44 | 4.6% |
| D+ | 15 | 1.6% |
| D | 11 | 1.2% |
| D- | 3 | 0.3% |
| F | 22 | 2.3% |
| S | 9 | 0.9% |
| W | 8 | 0.8% |
Based on 950 student grade records across 19 terms and 4 professors.
Instructors
- Zhiyun Qian 420 students, Average GPA 2.82
- Trent Jaeger 73 students, Average GPA 3.34
- Chinya Ravishankar 50 students, Average GPA 3.53
- Heng Yin 34 students, Average GPA 3.12