Information Security

Course Objectives:

This course aims to introduce students to the basics of the concepts of information security, risk and vulnerabilities, protect data using encryption technologies and secure networks and the Internet.

Course Content:

1. The basic concepts of information security.
2. Different encryption techniques (Encryption Standard - Encryption enabled public - key digital signature).
3. Information security services (integrity and confidentiality of messages and verification of the source - managing public keys).
4. Applications, network security (Security IP - Web Security - Security e-mails)
5. Protocols and systems to control access to networks (Kerberos - X.509).
6. Secure distributed systems.
7. Secure electronic commerce.

Skills expected from this course:

1. Understanding the basics of encryption technologies and applications.
2. Understand the risks and weaknesses of basic security and the ability to learn and analyze the security problems for a particular application.
3. The ability to design a security protocol to provide security services to be provided in a specific application.
4. Building models of systems to defend against infiltration and burglary on networks.

Textbook:
W. Stallings, "Cryptography and Network Security", 3rd Ed., Pearson Education, 2003, ISBN: 0131115022.
Reference:
E. Rescorla, "SSL and TLS: Designing and Building Secure Systems", Addison-Wesley, 2001, ISBN: 0201615983.