B.Sc. (Computer Science) Cyber and Information Security Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the TY BSc Computer Science syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. The University still sets the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it — her Summer 2026 third-year timetables name that scheme — so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.
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Syllabus for Cyber and Information Security
The University sets the practical for this subject separately, in Computer Science Practical 5, as Module 2. It carries its own credits, so it is examined as a paper of its own.
Module I
- Introduction: Security Trends, The OSI Security Architecture, Security Attacks, Security Services, Security Mechanisms
- Classical Encryption Techniques: Symmetric Cipher Model, Substitution Techniques, Transposition Techniques, Steganography, Block Cipher Principles, The Data Encryption Standard, The Strength of DES, AES (round details not expected), Multiple Encryption and Triple DES, Block Cipher Modes of Operation, Stream Ciphers
- Public-Key Cryptography and RSA: Principles of Public-Key Cryptosystems, The RSA Algorithm
- Key Management: Public-Key Cryptosystems, Key Management, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
- Message Authentication and Hash Functions: Authentication Requirements, Authentication Functions, Message Authentication Codes, Hash Functions, Security of Hash Functions and Macs, Secure Hash Algorithm, HMAC
Module II
- Digital Signatures and Authentication: Digital Signatures, Authentication Protocols, Digital Signature Standard
- Authentication Applications: Kerberos, X.509 Authentication, Public-Key Infrastructure
- Electronic Mail Security: Pretty Good Privacy, S/MIME
- IP Security: Overview, Architecture, Authentication Header, Encapsulating Security Payload, Combining Security Associations, Key Management
- Web Security: Web Security Considerations, Secure Socket Layer and Transport Layer Security, Secure Electronic Transaction
- Intrusion: Intruders, Intrusion Techniques, Intrusion Detection
- Malicious Software: Viruses and Related Threats, Virus Countermeasures, DDOS
- Firewalls: Firewall Design Principles, Types of Firewalls
Text Books
- 1 Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice 7th edition, William Stallings, Pearson
- 1 Cryptography and Network Security, 2nd edition, Behrouz A Fourouzan, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, TMH.
- 2 Atul Kahate, “Cryptography and Network Security”, Tata McGraw-Hill.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Computer Science) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.