COE449: Network and Information Security - Spring 2011 (T102)
Instructor: Ahmad Almulhem
Place: 24-149
Time: 13:10-14:00 (Sat-Mon-Wed)
Announcements
- Slides are available at the course's webCT
- Check your Marks here
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
Course Syllabus [pdf]
Resources
- Handbook of
Applied Cryptography, A. Menezes, P. van
Oorschot, and S. Vanstone, CRC Press, 1996.
- 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