ADVANCED TOPICS IN INFORMATION SECURITY
- Course
- MISY660 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN INFORMATION SECURITY
- Department
- Management Information Systems - English - PhD
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 0
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mary AGOYI
- Prerequisite
- -
- Keywords
- -
Course Description
Information is a crucial resource of today’s society. Protecting information and related intellectual property has recently posed a challenge. Information security is an enabling technology for developing a secured information society. These course aims at providing students with an advanced knowledge of Information security. The course will expose students to current and exciting research topics in information security. At the end of the course, students shall be able to understand the basic security properties, models, policies, concerns, and security tools such as cryptography, internet security, database security, steganography, access control mechanisms, firewalls and Intrusion detection system. Students will also have opportunity to evaluate real life security cases.
ADVANCED TOPICS IN INFORMATION SECURITY
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Course outcomes
- 01 At the end of the course, Students shall be able to understand advanced concepts in assessing the strength and limitations of security technologies.
- 02 At the end of the course, Students shall be able to understand the principal concepts, major issues, technologies, and basic approaches in information security
- 03 provide student with the understanding and assessments of the common threats faced by organizations
- 04 provide student the provide the ability to examine and analyze real-life security cases
Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Information security review |
| Week 2 | Information security Threats and Attacks |
| Week 3 | Public, Private and hybrid Encryption Techniques |
| Week 4 | Biometric access control |
| Week 5 | Cybersecurity |
| Week 6 | IPsec- VPN |
| Week 7 | Presentation 1 |
| Week 8 | Firewalls |
| Week 9 | Presentation 2 |
| Week 10 | internet Security (SSL/TLS) |
| Week 11 | SSL- VPN |
| Week 12 | Project Presentation |
| Week 13 | Project Presentation |
| Week 14 | Project Presentation |
| Week 15 | Final Exams |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Principles of Information Security, 3rd Edition by Micheal Whitman and Herbert Mattord
- 02 Security in Computing, 3rd Edition by Charles P. Pfleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
- 03 materials from digital libraries
Learning Outcomes
- L01 At the end of the course, Students shall be able to understand advanced concepts in assessing the strength and limitations of security technologies.
- L02 At the end of the course, Students shall be able to understand the principal concepts, major issues, technologies, and basic approaches in information security
- L03 provide student with the understanding and assessments of the common threats faced by organizations
- L04 provide student the provide the ability to examine and analyze real-life security cases
Program Outcomes
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