Information Security Lab
VVZ: Course Catalogue Overview: Autumn Semester 263-0009-00L
Lecturer: Profs. Shweta Shinde, David Basin, Srdjan Capkun, Kenneth Paterson
Course Sessions:
- V: Mon 16-18: ML D 28
- U: Tue 16-17: CHN F 46 | Wed 08-09 CAB G 11
- P: Thu 16-19: CAB H 56 / CAB H 57 / CHN E 42 / CHN G 42 / ETZ E 6
- A: n/a yet
Course Overview:
This InterFocus Course will provide a broad, hands-on introduction to Information Security, introducing adversarial thinking and security by design as key approaches to building secure systems.
Objective: This course will introduce key concepts from Information Security, both from attack and defence perspectives. Students will gain an appreciation of the complexity and challenge of building secure systems.
Content: The course is organised in three-week segments. In each segment, a new concept from Information Security will be introduced. The overall scope will be broad, including cryptography, protocol design, system security, and privacy.
Lecture notes: Will be made available during the semester.
Literature: Paul C. van Oorschot, Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels. Dan Boneh and Victor Shoup, A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography.
Prerequisites / Notice: Ideally, students will have taken the D-INFK Bachelors course “Information Security" or an equivalent course at Bachelors level.
Course Materials:
Moodle page (N/A yet)