BCT4109 Network and Systems Security

This course will give a student an overview of computer system security.  A student will learn about security technology as well as security practice, about how to manage security, deal with incidents and what common pitfalls to avoid when implementing a computer infrastructure. Privacy Preservation Technologies and Ethical/Legal aspects of security will be covered as well.

Course objectives
The objective of this course is to enable students to:

• Recognize that security is risk management and inherently includes tradeoffs.
• Be familiar with the implications of hostile users and misuse cases
• Gain framework for understanding algorithms and other technological measures for enhancing security
• Demonstrate strategic and tactical design issues in information security.

Learning outcomes
By the end of this course students will be able to: 

• Define confidentiality and integrity
• Define misuse cases and explain its role in information security
• Illustrate an access control matrix model
• State the motivation for putting all encryption algorithm variability in the keys
• Explain the difference between authorization and authentication
• Describe current approaches to trusted computing such as trusted hardware, secure storage, and biometrics.