ITIS 6200 / 8200: Principles of Information Security and Privacy
Resources
Text books
A number of excellent books and on-line resources overlap with the course's content and can provide alternate explanations despite differences in notation and approach.
- Security Engineering by Ross Anderson
- Cryptography Engineering by Ferguson, Schneier, and Kohno
- Introduction to Computer Security by Matt Bishop
- Computer Security: Principles and Practice by William Stallings
- Computer Security: Art and Science by Matt Bishop
- Security in Computing by Charles P. Pfleeger
- Introduction to Computer Security by Michael Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia
- Computer Security, a freely available course textbook from UC Berkeley.
Reading research papers
The weekly paper reading list, with a free PDF link, page count, required background, and discussion questions for each week, is on the Paper Reading Schedule. How the discussions are run and graded is on the Policies page.
Pointers of online security courses
- Course materials (slides, HW, projects) of CS161: Computer Security from UC Berkeley. Its textbook is also available online.
- Video lectures on CS253: Web Security from Stanford.
- Video lectures on 6.858: System Security from MIT.