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 18-Aug | Introduction to Security | |||
| Thu 21-Aug | Intro to Cryptography | A1 released | Cryptography | ||
| 2 | Tue 26-Aug | Block Cipher | |||
| Thu 28-Aug | Block Cipher | Cryptography | |||
| 3 | Tue 2-Sep | Cryptographic Hashes | |||
| Thu 4-Sep | Cryptographic Hashes and MACs | A1 due | Cryptography | ||
| 4 | Tue 9-Sep | PRNGs | |||
| Thu 11-Sep | Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange and Public-Key Encryption | A1 due | Cryptography | ||
| 5 | Tue 16-Sep | Public-Key Encryption & Digital Signatures | A2 released | ||
| Thu 18-Sep | Certificates & Password Hashing | 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 | Recess | ||
| Tue 7-Oct | Access Control & Intro to Web | ||||
| Thu 9-Oct | No class | Web security | |||
| 8 | Tue 14-Oct | Cookies and CSRF | |||
| Tue 16-Oct | XSS and UI attacks | P1 due | Web security | ||
| 9 | Tue 21-Oct | SQL injection | A3 released | ||
| Thu 23-Oct | Intro to Network | Network security | |||
| 10 | Tue 28-Oct | ARP and TCP | |||
| Thu 30-Oct | DoS | P2 released | Network security | ||
| 11 | Tue 4-Nov | Denial of Service and Firewalls | A3 due | ||
| Thu 6-Nov | Intrusion Detection | Network Security | |||
| 12 | Tue 11-Nov | No class | |||
| Thu 13-Nov | Introduction to heap and stack | A4 released | P2 due | System security | |
| 13 | Tue 18-Nov | Memory vulnerability | P3 released | ||
| Thu 20-Nov | Memory vulnerability | System Security | |||
| 14 | Tue 25-Nov | Mitigating memory safety | |||
| Thu 27-Nov | No class | A4 due | Final | ||
| 16 | Tue 2-Dec | Final Review | P3 due | ||
| Thu 4-Dec | FINAL EXAM (8:00 - 10:30am) |