Coursera
Instructor: William Bahn
Univeristy of colorado
Cryptography is an essential component of cybersecurity.
The need to protect sensitive information and ensure the integrity of industrial control processes has placed a premium on cybersecurity skills in today’s information technology market.
Demand for cybersecurity jobs is expected to rise 6 million globally by 2019, with a projected shortfall of 1.5 million, according to Symantec, the world’s largest security software vendor.
According to Forbes, the cybersecurity market is expected to grow from $75 billion in 2015 to $170 billion by 2020.
In this specialization, students will learn basic security issues in computer communications, classical cryptographic algorithms, symmetric-key cryptography, public-key cryptography, authentication, and digital signatures.
These topics should prove useful to those who are new to cybersecurity, and those with some experience.