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 | Mon 13-Jan | Introduction to Security | |||
| Wed 15-Jan | Intro to Cryptography | A1 released | Cryptography | ||
| 2 | Mon 20-Jan | No class (MLK day) | |||
| Wed 22-Jan | Block Cipher | Cryptography | |||
| 3 | Mon 27-Jan | Cryptographic Hashes | |||
| Wed 29-Jan | MACs | A1 due | Cryptography | ||
| 4 | Mon 3-Feb | PRNGs | A2 released | ||
| Wed 5-Feb | Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange and Public-Key Encryption | Cryptography | |||
| 5 | Mon 10-Feb | Digital Signatures and Certificates | |||
| Wed 12-Feb | Password Management | Bitcoin | |||
| 6 | Mon 17-Feb | Bitcoin | A2 due | ||
| Wed 19-Feb | Midterm Review | Midterm | |||
| 7 | Mon 24-Feb | MID-TERM EXAM (Covers lectures 1-9) | |||
| Wed 26-Feb | Access Control | P1 released | Spring Recess | ||
| Mon 3-Mar | No class | ||||
| Wed 5-Mar | No class | Web security | |||
| 8 | Mon 10-Mar | Intro to Web | |||
| Wed 12-Mar | Cookies and CSRF | P1 due | Web security | ||
| 9 | Mon 17-Mar | XSS and UI attacks | A3 released | ||
| Wed 19-Mar | SQL injection | Network security | |||
| 10 | Mon 24-Mar | Intro to Network | |||
| Wed 26-Mar | ARP | P2 released | Network security | ||
| 11 | Mon 31-Mar | TCP | A3 due | ||
| Wed 2-Apr | Denial of Service and Firewalls | Network Security | |||
| 12 | Mon 7-Apr | Intrusion Detection | |||
| Thu 9-Apr | TLS or malware | A4 released | P2 due | System security | |
| 13 | Mon 14-Apr | Introduction to heap and stack | P3 released | ||
| Wed 16-Apr | Memory vulnerability | System Security | |||
| 14 | Mon 21-Apr | Mitigating memory safety | |||
| Wed 23-Apr | Mitigating memory safety (continue) | A4 due | Special Topics | ||
| 16 | Mon 28-Apr | TBD | P3 due | ||
| Wed 30-Apr | Final Review | Final | |||
| 16 | Wed 7-May | FINAL EXAM (8:00 - 10:30am) | |||