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 19-Aug | Introduction to Security | |||
| Thu 21-Aug | Intro to Cryptography | A1 released | Cryptography | ||
| 2 | Tue 26-Aug | Block Cipher | |||
| Thu 28-Aug | Block Cipher, Cryptographic Hashes | Cryptography | |||
| 3 | Tue 2-Sep | MACs | |||
| Thu 4-Sep | MACs | A1 due | Cryptography | ||
| 4 | Tue 9-Sep | PRNG | A2 released | ||
| Thu 11-Sep | Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange and Public-Key Encryption | Cryptography | |||
| 5 | Tue 16-Sep | Digital Signatures and Certificates | |||
| Thu 18-Sep | Password Management | Bitcoin | |||
| 6 | Tue 23-Sep | Bitcoin | A2 due | ||
| Thu 25-Sep | Midterm Review | Midterm | |||
| 7 | Tue 30-Sep | MID-TERM EXAM (Covers lectures 1-9) | |||
| Thu 2-Oct | Access Control | P1 released | Web security | ||
| 8 | Tue 7-Oct | Intro to Web & Midterm review | |||
| Thu 9-Oct | NO class | Web security | |||
| 9 | Tue 14-Oct | Cookies and CSRF | |||
| Thu 16-Oct | XSS and UI attacks | Network security | |||
| 10 | Tue 21-Oct | SQL injection | P1 due | ||
| Thu 23-Oct | Intro to Network | A3 released | Network security | ||
| 11 | Tue 28-Oct | ARP | |||
| Thu 30-Oct | TCP | P2 released | Network Security | ||
| 12 | Tue 4-Nov | Denial of Service and Firewalls | |||
| Thu 6-Nov | Intrusion Detection & Malware | A3 due | System security | ||
| 13 | Tue 11-Nov | No class | A4 released | ||
| Thu 13-Nov | Introduction to heap and stack | P2 due | System Security | ||
| 14 | Tue 18-Nov | Memory vulnerability | P3 released | ||
| Thu 20-Nov | Mitigating memory safety | Special topics | |||
| 15 | Tue 25-Nov | Project Presentation for ITIS 8200? | A4 due | ||
| Thu 27-Nov | No class (Thanksgiving Recess) | Final | |||
| 16 | Tue 2-Dec | Final Review | P3 due | ||
| Thu 4-Dec (8:00 - 10:30am) | FINAL EXAM | ||||