ITIS 6200 / 8200: Principles of Information Security and Privacy
Schedule
NOTE: The current schedule is tentative and subject to change. Nonetheless it gives an idea of the material to be covered in this course. The lecture notes are seeded from previous years' ITIS 6200/8200, and will be updated immediately before and after each lecture. A lot of course materials are brought from the course CS162: Computer Security at UC berkerly.
| Wk. | Date | Topic | Notes | Assignments | Projects | Introduction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tue 22-Aug | Introduction to Security | |||
| Thu 24-Aug | Intro to Cryptography | Cryptography | |||
| 2 | Tue 29-Aug | Block Cipher | A1 released | ||
| Thu 31-Aug | Block Cipher, Cryptographic Hashes | Cryptography | |||
| 3 | Tue 5-Sep | MACs | |||
| Thu 7-Sep | PRNGs | Cryptography | |||
| 4 | Tue 12-Sep | Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange and Public-Key Encryption | A1 due; A2 released | ||
| Thu 14-Sep | Digital Signatures and Certificates | Cryptography | |||
| 5 | Tue 19-Sep | Password Management & Concept Review | |||
| Thu 21-Sep | Bitcoin | Access Control | |||
| 6 | Tue 26-Sep | More on Bitcoin | A2 due | ||
| Thu 28-Sep | Midterm Review | Midterm | |||
| 7 | Tue 3-Oct | MID-TERM EXAM (Covers lectures 1-10) | |||
| Thu 5-Oct | Access Control | Web security | |||
| 8 | Tue 10-Oct | Intro to Web & Midterm review | P1 released | ||
| Thu 12-Oct | Cookies and CSRF | Web security | |||
| 9 | Tue 17-Oct | XSS and UI attacks | |||
| Thu 19-Oct | SQL injection | Network security | |||
| 10 | Tue 24-Oct | No class | |||
| Thu 26-Oct | Intro to Network | A3 released | P1 due | Network security | |
| 11 | Tue 31-Oct | ARP & Key Concepts | |||
| Thu 2-Nov | TCP | P2 released | System security | ||
| 12 | Tue 7-Nov | Denial of Service and Firewalls | |||
| Thu 9-Nov | Intrusion Detection & Malware | A3 due | System security | ||
| 13 | Tue 14-Nov | Introduction to heap and stack | |||
| Thu 16-Nov | Memory vulnerability | A4 released | P2 due | System Security | |
| 14 | Tue 21-Nov | Information Flow Analysis, Formal methods for security | P3 released | ||
| Tue 23-Nov | No class (Thanksgiving Recess) | Special topics | |||
| 15 | Tue 28-Nov | Mitigating memory safety | |||
| Thu 30-Nov | Mitigating memory safety (continue) | A4 due | Final | ||
| 16 | Tue 5-Dec | Final Review | P3 due | ||
| Thu 14-Dec (8:00 - 10:30am) | FINAL EXAM | ||||