ITIS 3200: Introduction to Information Security and Privacy

Information security and privacy has played an important role in our daily lives. In this course, we are going to present the basic knowledge in this literature and how these simple yet neat ideas can be combined to construct secure mechanisms. We will introduce security and privacy from policy, implementation, and enforcement aspects. We will introduce the building blocks such as encryption and authentication. We will also discuss the topics in network, system, software, and user security. Some state-of-the-art problems will also be introduced.


Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2:   Slide for Chapter 1,     Slide for Chapter 2,     Slide for Chapter 4,     Slide for Chapter 5.

Homework 1: Homework 1, due February 3rd, 2010 before class.

Week 3:   Slide for Chapter 5,     Slide for Chapter 6,     Slide for Chapter 7.

Homework 2: Homework 2, due February 12th, 2010 before class.

Week 4:     Slide for Chapter 6,     Slide for Chapter 7.

Week 5:     Slide for Chapter 8, part1.

Week 6:     Slide for Chapter 8, part1,     Slide for Chapter 8, part2.

Week 7:     Slide for Chapter 8, part2,     Midterm review.

Week 8:     The midterm exam will be conducted on March 3rd in class.
       

Week 10:     Slide for Chapter 8, part2,     Slide for Chapter 9.

Week 11:     Slide for Chapter 9,     Slide for Chapter 11.

Homework 3: Homework 3, due April 7th, 2010 before class.

Week 12:     Slide for Chapter 11.

Week 13:     Graphical-Password,     Slide for Chapter 12,     Slide for Chapter 13.

Week 14:     Slide for Chapter 13.

Week 15:     Fight spam part 1,     Fight spam part 2.     Final exam review.