Security Engineering

Abstract: As a user of the Internet, you are fortunate to be tied into the world's greatest communication and information exchange - but not without a price. As a result of this connection, your computer, your organization's network, and everywhere the network reaches are all vulnerable to potentially disastrous infiltration by hackers. [W. Cheswick. Firewalls and Internet Security]

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• Access Control
• Attack Types (Denial of Service, Man in the Middle)
• Authentication Mechanisms
• Biometrics
• Copyright Protection (Digital Rights Management - DRM)
• Distributed Systems
• Digital Certificates and Digital Signatures
• Emission Security
• Encryption Algorithms (DES, RSA)
• Monitoring Systems
• Network Attack & Defense (Introduction, Defense against Network Attacks, Trojans, Viruses, Intrusion Detection, chkrootkit, Nessus)
• Network Attack & Defense II (Trojans, Viruses, Intrusion Detection, chkrootkit)
• One-Time Passwords (ditto)
• Passwords
• Secure Documents (PDF, EFS/Windows)
• Security Concerns (Authenticity, Integrity, Privacy, Non-Repudiation)
• Security in E-Commerce Systems
• Trusting Trust
• Virtual Private Networks (not part of seminar, but on topic)