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The course provides a study of the principles and practice of security for both stored and transmitted information. It addresses the fundamental principles of computer and network security and covers: Internet Threats and Hacker Techniques, Firewall Security, Intrusion Detection Systems, Authentication, Encryption Technologies, Public Key Management, Virtual Private Networks and Wireless Network Security.
COSC264 or ACIS 333 or INFO333. RP: It is recommended that COSC362 and COSC364 be taken together, particularly as preparation for students wishing to proceed to post-graduate study and the post-graduate diploma in Science: Computer Security and Forensics
COSC 332, ACIS 323, AFIS 323
It is recommended that COSC362 and COSC364 be taken together, particularly as preparation for students wishing to proceed to post-graduate study and the post-graduate diploma in Science: Computer Security and Forensics
Dong Seong Kim
Associate Prof. Dijiang Huang:
William Stallings & Lawrie Brown; Computer Security: Principles and Practice ; 2; Prentice Hall.
• Other books will be used in the course if necessary.• Material (e.g., PowerPoint slides) from the course reader and lecture slides will be published on Learn as the course progresses.
The Computer Science department has the following grading policy. In order to pass a course you must meet two requirements:a) The university has adopted a common scale for converting marks to grades. According to this scale, an average mark of 50% is sufficient to pass the course (i.e. to achieve a C-), with an average mark of 55% a C grade is achieved and so forth. We apply this conversion scale to the average marks students achieve overall assessment items.b) You must achieve an average mark of at least 45% on invigilated assessment items. Marks are sometimes scaled to achieve consistency between courses from year to year.
Week 1 Introduction and overview / Cryptographic tools (classical encryption) Week 2 Symmetric encryption (DES, AES) / Mode of operation Week 3 Message authentication and hash functions / Public-key encryption Week 4 (DH & RSA) Week 5 PKI / Internet Security protocols (IPsec) Week 6 (Secure E-mail, SSL, HTTPS, etc) Mid-semester break (Mon 19 to Fri 30 Aug) Week 7 Wireless Network Security Week 8 Cyber and physical attacks / Vulnerability scanning Week 9 Firewall / Intrusion Detection Week 10 (continued) / Intrusion Response/Tolerance Week 11 Security management / Other security issues (1) Week 12 Other security issues (2) / Course review
Domestic fee $719.00
International fee $3,325.00
* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.
For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering .