CSC 492/592 Spring 2007:

Selected Topics in Information Security

 

Jonathan Zheng Sun

http://www.cs.usm.edu/~jsun/08s592.html

 

 

General Information

 

Coursework. Coursework will consist of an in-class presentation, several in-class quizzes, and a comprehensive final exam. The course letter grade will be determined by combining numerical scores for presentation (50%), quizzes (30%), and final exam (20%), following this chart on 100 points:

A: 90-100

A-: 85-89

B+: 80-84

B: 75-79

B-: 70-74

C+: 65-69

C: 60-64

C-: 55-59

D: 50-54

F: 0-49

 

Time/Place. The course meets MWF, 10:00 - 10:50am in TEC 101.

 

Prerequisite. Students who have taken the course Introduction to Cryptography and got B or above are prequalified. Others need instructor's permission after reviewing their background.

 

Lecture Notes. At http://orca.st.usm.edu/course/view.php?id=68 Provided by http://www.isc2.org

 

Final Exam Time: Monday, May 5, 8:00am-10:30am

 

Plagiarism. The university policy about academic honesty is in page 31-32 of the Student Handbook. A failure with dignity is much better than an abject success. Nevertheless, I will not fail anyone who has tried the best of his/her talents.

  

Tentative Schedule

 

 

Monday

Wednesday

Friday

Week 1 (Jan.14/16/18)

 Introduction

Security Management

Access Control

Week 2 (Jan.21/23/25)

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday. No Class.

Access Control (attacks and defending methods)

Kerberos and/or TACACS

By Brandon Baas

Week 3 (Jan.28/30/Feb.1)

Symmetric key and public key cryptography

Symmetric key and public key cryptography QUIZ

Cryptanalysis

Week 4 (Feb.4/6/8)

Mardi Gras Day. No Class.

MAC and hash

MAC and hash

Week 5 (Feb.11/13/15)

Survey of Secure Hash Functions By Sushma Botta

Digital signatures

 

Week 6 (Feb.18/20/22)

Email Security

PKI

QUIZ

Survey of Stream Ciphers

By Rama Devi Madasu

Week 7 (Feb.25/27/29)

Introduction to Network Security

IPSec

 

Week 8

(Mar.3/5/7)

SSL &. TLS

SSL &. TLS

QUIZ

 

Week 9 (Mar.10/12/14)

Spring Break. No Class.

Spring Break. No Class.

Spring Break. No Class.

Week 10 (Mar.17/19/21)

Introduction to VPN

By Ragha

SSH-2 and HTTPS

Good Friday. No Class.

Week 11 (Mar.24/26/28)

Security architecture and models

Security architecture and models

 

Week 12 (Mar.31/Apr.2/4)

Operations security

Operations security

QUIZ

IP Spoofing

Kalluri

Week 13 (Apr.7/9/11)

Application development

Application development

Intrusion Detection

Kalyani

Week 14

(Apr.14/16/18)

Planning and disaster recovery

Planning and disaster recovery

QUIZ

Introduction to Firewalls

Sahithi

Week 15

(Apr.21/23/25)

Law and ethics

Law and ethics

 

Week 16

(Apr.28/30/May.2)

Physical security

Physical security

QUIZ

 

 

Final Exam Time: Monday, May 5, 8:00 a.m. -10:30 a.m.