Course

Security Engineering and Cyber Security - COMP6441

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Computer Science and Engineering

Course Outline: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs6441

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Completion of 48 UOC

Excluded: COMP3441, COMP6841, COMP9441

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

Introduction to computer security, prevention of cybercrime and cyberterror. The principles of engineering secure systems. How to think like a security engineer.

Engineering secure systems. How security fails. Security analysis and design. Private and public cryptographic protocols. Introduction to information security: Confidentiality, Integrity, Authentication, Non-repudiation, hashing, signatures, bits of security. Physical security, social engineering, sniffing, intrusion detection, prevention and response, firewalls, honeypots. Overview of vulnerabilities and exploits including areas such as buffer overflow, inter overflow, heap attacks, Return-Oriented-Programming, heap attacks. Principles of risk and security. Case studies drawn from the history of hacking and from current events.

Additional topics drawn from recent developments and current research in applied computer security.

There are numerous formative assessments and activities throughout the course to provide feedback and learning opportunities. These do not directly contribute to your final grade but are expected to be used to provide evidence of your capabilities in your portfolio.

A programming background is not required but it will be helpful in some of the more applied topics. Students need a keen devious and analytical mind. To get the most from this course students will need to engage in independent study and research and be able to act as independent self-directed learners.


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