Aim

The course provides deeper studies in selected topics in the area of information security.

Prerequisites

Basic course in security (e.g. TSIT02).

To participate in the TDDD17 course and its examinations you need to be officially registered to the course.

Note: The deadline for the registration is January 24. If you do not register before that deadline or the prerequisite is not fulfilled, you will not be admitted any longer to take part in the course.

Organisation

The course consists of two parts, an overview part and an individual deeper studies part. The overview consists mainly of lectures and a study of literature. The deeper studies consist of a project in a sub-field of information security. The course will cover the whole spring term.

Scheduled lecture hours: 44
Rec. self-study hours: 116

Course contents

Part 1: This part deals with theory and is based on lectures and literature study. The lectures will cover the following topics:

• System security
• Identification and auhentication, Biometric user authentication
• Network security
• Business continuity planning, Physical security
• Risk analysis

Part 2: In this part students will perform projects, which can be of theoretical or practical nature. The subjects of the projects will be from the topics studied in part 1 or other topics within the field. The projects will be performed in groups of two students.

Course literature

Article collection.

Examination

See the examination page here.