This course introduces students to malware research and analysis. The course will provide students an overview of malware research, intelligence gathering related to malware, and provide students basic skills required to analyze and dis-assemble malicious programs. Students will explore the tools required for analysis and reverse engineering of malicious code, learn malware defense techniques, how malware functions, and will perform live analysis and reverse engineering exercises. Prerequisite: IAE-402 (3-0-3) NOTE: Students enrolled in this course incur an additional lab fee of $100.