G53SEC
- COMPUTER SECURITY
INTRODUCTION
This website is designed specifically for the G53SEC - Computer Security module. Here you can find latest information regarding the course, lecture information as well as lecture slides and other useful resources concerning computer security.
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NEWS
24/01/2008 - First lecture will take place today at 13.00 in LT 1.
31/01/2008 - Coursework Specification was released today. You can download it here.
04/02/2008 - Professor Ross Anderson has agreed to come and give a seminar on 25th April.
05/02/2008 - Course textbook is now be available from the Jubilee Library.
11/02/2008 - Coursework groups have now been released. You can view them here. The coursework has now oficially started. Please remember to follow the coursework specification carefully! To obtain your installation disc and credentials for your machine, send one group member with his/her student card to room A39 during support hours.
20/02/2008 - This week's lectures on cryptography and its applications will be given by Robert Oates.
29/02/2008 - Today's guest lecture will be given by Professor Angela Sasse from UCL. The title of her talk: Beyond "usable security": how to manage the human element in security.
29/02/2008 - Don't forget that today is the last day of the first stage of the coursework. The lab will be isolated from the internet starting tonight. The second stage of the coursework will commence on monday.
19/04/2008 - The coursework lab has been closed today.
22/04/2008 - The coursework deadline has now passed.
24/04/2008 - Please don't forget tomorrow's seminar/guest lecture which will be given by Professor Anderson. More information about his talk can be found here. Slides for this talk have also been already uploaded and can be found below.
LECTURES
Lecture Schedule:
* G.1 refers to Gollmann's Computer Security - Chapter 1
A.1 refers to Anderson's Security Engineering - Chapter 1
Date Topic Slides Book Chapters* 24/01/2008 Introduction to G53SEC & Security [pdf, ppt] G.1 | A.1 25/01/2008 Foundations of Security [pdf, ppt] G.2 31/01/2008 Introduction to Coursework [pdf, ppt]
[unix,win2k3] [cswk spec]- - 01/02/2008 Authentication and Identification [pdf, ppt] G.3 | A.3 07/02/2008 Access Control … [pdf, ppt] G(4,15) | A.4 08/02/2008 ...and its Enforcement [pdf, ppt] G.5| A.4 14/02/2008 Security Models [pdf, ppt] G(8,9) | A(7,8) 15/02/2008 Security Models 2 [pdf, ppt] G.10 | A.23 21/02/2008 Fundamentals of Cryptography - Robert Oates [pdf, ppt] G.11 | A.5 22/02/2008 Cryptographic Applications - Robert Oates G.12 | A.5 28/02/2008 Network Security [pdf, ppt] G.13 | A.18 29/02/2008 User Centred Security - Prof. Angela Sasse [pdf, ppt] - 06/03/2008 Hardware Security [pdf, ppt] G.14 |A.22 07/03/2008 Bio-Inspired Security - Dr. Julie Greensmith [pdf] - 13/03/2008 Software Security [pdf, ppt] A(13,14,15) 14/03/2008 Software Exploitation - Gianni Tedesco - 20/03/2008 Easter Vacation - 21/03/2008 Easter Vacation - 27/03/2008 Easter Vacation - 28/03/2008 Easter Vacation - 03/04/2008 Easter Vacation - 04/04/2008 Easter Vacation - 10/04/2008 Easter Vacation - 11/04/2008 Easter Vacation - 17/04/2008 Mobile Security [pdf, ppt] G.16 |A(17) 18/04/2008 Security in an Enterprise - Paul Kennedy [pdf, ppt] - 24/04/2008 Copyright and Privacy [pdf, ppt] A(19,20,21) 25/04/2008 Security Engineering - Prof. Ross Anderson [pdf, ppt] - 01/05/2008 Revision + Exam Tips [ppt] - 02/05/2008 No Lecture -
TIMETABLE
Lectures will take place on the following days:
Thursday - LT 1 @ 13.00
Friday - LT 3 @ 14.00
The coursework lab B52 will be available every day during normal University opening hours from the start of the coursework period (from third week of this semester onwards) for the duration of the coursework.
For the official timetable please follow this link: Timetable
LINKS
A Link to the additional reading resource can be found here:
- Security Engineering - Ross Anderson [web]
Various links to internet resources containing useful security news, articles and other information:
- F-Secure Blog - various interesting views on current malware situation [ web ]
- Light Blue Touchpaper - blog of Cambridge security lab [web]
- Rootsecure.net - a collection of security news from various sources [web]
- Hack in the Box - another collection of security news from various sources [web]
- IEEE Security and Privacy - eminent journal of security [web, IEEExplore]
Please feel free to contact me if you have found an interesting resource that others could benefit from and I will add it here if suitable.
CONTACT
If you would like to speak to me regarding this course, please send me an email at jqf(at)cs.nott.ac.uk, replacing (at) with @.
DISCLAIMER
- Do not misuse knowledge learned during this course
- Some theories taught here are illegal (or violate University policy) when put into practice
- Any such violation will not be tolerated!
- The only time allowed to perform otherwise unacceptable application of theories learned is during the coursework and only in the isolated lab!
- Link to University Information Security policy can be seen here