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 20-Aug | Introduction to Security | |||
| Thu 22-Aug | Intro to Cryptography | A1 released | Cryptography | ||
| 2 | Tue 27-Aug | Block Cipher | |||
| Thu 29-Aug | Block Cipher, Cryptographic Hashes | Cryptography | |||
| 3 | Tue 3-Sep | MACs | |||
| Thu 5-Sep | PRNGs | A1 due | Cryptography | ||
| 4 | Tue 10-Sep | Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange and Public-Key Encryption | A2 released | ||
| Thu 12-Sep | Digital Signatures and Certificates | Cryptography | |||
| 5 | Tue 17-Sep | Password Management | |||
| Thu 19-Sep | Bitcoin | Bitcoin | |||
| 6 | Tue 24-Sep | More on Bitcoin | A2 due | ||
| Thu 26-Sep | Midterm Review | Midterm | |||
| 7 | Tue 1-Oct | MID-TERM EXAM (Covers lectures 1-9) | |||
| Thu 3-Oct | Access Control | P1 released | Web security | ||
| 8 | Tue 8-Oct | Intro to Web & Midterm review | |||
| Thu 10-Oct | Cookies and CSRF | Web security | |||
| 9 | Tue 15-Oct | Student Recess: No Class | |||
| Thu 17-Oct | XSS and UI attacks | Network security | |||
| 10 | Tue 22-Oct | SQL injection | P1 due | ||
| Thu 24-Oct | Intro to Network | A3 released | Network security | ||
| 11 | Tue 29-Oct | ARP & Key Concepts | |||
| Thu 31-Oct | TCP | P2 released | Network Security | ||
| 12 | Tue 5-Nov | Denial of Service and Firewalls | |||
| Thu 7-Nov | Intrusion Detection & Malware | A3 due | System security | ||
| 13 | Tue 12-Nov | Introduction to heap and stack | A4 released | ||
| Thu 14-Nov | Memory vulnerability | P2 due | System Security | ||
| 14 | Tue 19-Nov | Mitigating memory safety | P3 released | ||
| Thu 21-Nov | Mitigating memory safety (continue) | Special topics | |||
| 15 | Tue 26-Nov | Project Presentation for ITIS 8200? | A4 due | ||
| Thu 28-Nov | No class (Thanksgiving Recess) | Final | |||
| 16 | Tue 3-Dec | Final Review | P3 due | ||
| Thu 12-Dec (8:00 - 10:30am) | FINAL EXAM | ||||