1IS2150/TEL2810 Introduction to Security Tentative Course Schedule Week # Topic Objective: The students are expected to have the following capability after the lecture Testing Week 1 Sept 1 Introduction (Chapter 1) • Define/Describe/explain some key security terms • Describe/explain the importance of trust, assurance and operational issues within the security area • Homework 1 (2 Weeks) Week 2 Sept 8 Secure Design Principles; Access control in Unix and Windows • Explain the secure design principles and its importance • Recognize the basic access control mechanism in OS • Use access control commands to manipulate permissions in the OS • Quiz 1: (for Week 1) • Lab 1 (2 Weeks) Week 3 Sep 15 Mathematical Review; Security Policy • Write a sentence in logic form and interpret the logic expressions • Solve problems using mathematical induction • Interpret, analyze and construct lattice structures • Quiz 2 (for Week 2) • Homework 2 (1 Week) Week 4 Sep 22 HRU Access Control Matrix - Foundational Result • Represent/Describe formally the safety problem using ACM • Reason and Demonstrate the undecidability result related to security • Homework 3 (1 Weeks) Week 5 Sep 29 Confidentiality, Integrity and Hybrid Policy Models • Explain the confidentiality, integrity and hybrid policy models and relate them to application needs • Employ them to new applications and synthesize solution • Quiz 3: (for Week 4) • Lab 2 (Due: After October Break) • Homework 4 (Due: After October Break) Week 6 Oct 6 Oct 14 October Break Week 8 Oct 20 Midterm Homeworks/Labs are due by the end of the due date, i.e., by 11:59PM2IS2150/TEL2810 Introduction to Security Tentative Course Schedule (Cont.) Week 9 Oct 27 Basics of Cryptography and Network Security; Authentication and Identity • Recognize/explain and use the basic cryptographic techniques • Explain and employ the basic network security (e.g., authentication) techniques Project planning starts in week after midterm; • Homework 6 (Jumbo): Java programming Assignment (Due: Before Thanksgiving) Week 10 Nov 3 • Lab 3 (firewall) given out in start of week 9 (Due: Nov18) Week 11 Nov 10 Security Evaluation, Risk Management, Legal and Ethical Issues • Explain the main idea behind common criteria • Recognize the importance of risk management process and employ it to assess and solve organizational security • Recognize, define/explain legal and ethical concerns related to security • Quiz 5 (for Week 9) Week 12 Nov 17 Authentication and Id, Malicious Code, • Recognize, define/explain authentication techniques and Identity Mgmt issues • Recognize, compare/contrast, explain different types of malicious code • • Lab 4 (Before Final) Week 13 Nov 24 Thanksgiving Week 14 Dec 1 Vulnerability Analysis; Software security • Recognize, classify and compare vulnerability (taxonomy/classification) • Recognize, compare/contrast, explain different types of coding related software issues Week 15 Dec 8 IDS; Auditing; Firewalls Misc • Recognize, explain and analyze auditing/IDS/Auditing systems Quiz 6 (for Week 12, 13) Dec 14
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