• devices and operating principles involved in automated systems

• methodology for the design, construction, and operation of secure automated systems

• criteria and methods for assessing the security of automated systems

• means and methods of unauthorized access to information in automated systems

• architecture of secure computer networks

• software, devices, and hardware for creating secure networks

• principles of building and managing secure networks

• rule for the organizational, technical, and legal protection of information

• the use of software and device technologies for protecting information

• building and operating secure databases

• systems approach to the problem of protecting information in database management systems

• mechanisms for protecting information in databases and database management systems and opportunities for circumventing them

• concepts of engineering- and technology-related means of information protection

• organizational foundations for the use of engineering- and technology-related means of information protection

After receiving training in this discipline, specialists must have an understanding of the following:

• promising areas for the development of computer security theory

• methods for information security threat analysis

• architecture of secure automated systems

• principles for the construction of secure systems

• typical attacks on secure systems

• promising areas for the development of network security technologies

• current problems of information security science and the role and place of network information security in overall efforts to ensure comprehensive information security

Specialists must know the following:

• methodological and technological foundations for comprehensive automated systems security

• threats and methods of violating systems security

• formal models providing a foundation for security systems

• standards for assessing systems security and their theoretical foundations

• methods and means of building secure systems

• methods and means of verifying and analyzing the reliability of secure systems