CSC
492/592 Spring 2007:
Selected Topics in Information Security
http://www.cs.usm.edu/~jsun/08s592.html
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.
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Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
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Week 1 (Jan.14/16/18) |
Introduction |
Security Management |
Access Control |
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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 |
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Week 3 (Jan.28/30/Feb.1) |
Symmetric key and public key cryptography |
Symmetric key and public key cryptography QUIZ |
Cryptanalysis |
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Week 4 (Feb.4/6/8) |
Mardi Gras Day. No Class. |
MAC and hash |
MAC and hash |
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Week 5 (Feb.11/13/15) |
Survey of Secure Hash Functions By Sushma Botta |
Digital signatures |
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Week 6 (Feb.18/20/22) |
Email Security |
PKI QUIZ |
Survey of Stream Ciphers By Rama Devi Madasu |
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Week 7 (Feb.25/27/29) |
Introduction to Network Security |
IPSec |
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Week 8 (Mar.3/5/7) |
SSL
&. TLS
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SSL &. TLS
QUIZ |
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Week 9 (Mar.10/12/14) |
Spring Break. No Class. |
Spring Break. No Class. |
Spring Break. No Class. |
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Week 10 (Mar.17/19/21) |
Introduction
to VPN
By Ragha |
SSH-2 and HTTPS |
Good Friday. No Class. |
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Week 11 (Mar.24/26/28) |
Security architecture and models |
Security architecture and models |
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Week 12 (Mar.31/Apr.2/4) |
Operations security |
Operations security QUIZ |
IP Spoofing Kalluri |
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Week 13 (Apr.7/9/11) |
Application development |
Application development |
Intrusion Detection Kalyani |
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Week 14 (Apr.14/16/18) |
Planning and disaster recovery |
Planning and disaster recovery QUIZ |
Introduction to Firewalls Sahithi |
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Week 15 (Apr.21/23/25) |
Law and ethics |
Law and ethics |
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Week 16 (Apr.28/30/May.2) |
Physical security
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Physical security
QUIZ |
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Final Exam Time: Monday, May 5, 8:00 a.m. -10:30 a.m.