COE449: Network and Information Security - Fall 2010 (T101)

Place: 22-132
Time: 10:00-11:15am (Sunday-Tuesday)

Announcements

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Description

Introduction to the fundamental principles and practices underlying the field of computer and network security. Topics include risk analysis, security policies, authentication, access control, cryptography, auditing, principles of secure design, contemporary security issues, and a course project on the above topics.

Textbook

"Computer Security: Principles and Practice", William Stallings and Lawrie Brown, Pearson Education, Prentice Hall, 2008.

Tentative Topics

• Overview
• Cryptography
• User Authentication
• Access Control
• Trusted Computing and Multilevel Security
• Database Security
• Network Secuirty
• Malicious Software
• Risk Management

Resources

• Security in Computing, 4th Edition, Charles P. Pfleeger, Prentice Hall
• Practical Unix and Internet Security, Simon Garfinkel and Gene Spafford
• Cryptography: An Introduction, 2nd Edition, Nigel Smart
• TeX Live : Latex for Linux/Unix
• MiKTeX : Latex for Windows
• R : statistical computing and graphics language
• NS-2 : The Network Simulator