Datasäkerhet/Computer Security, 6 ECTS (in English)
Computer Security Course 2014 HT: dasak14.
Previous course instance: dasak13.
Objectives
The students should be able to:
- recognize threats to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems
- explain the basic computer security terminology and concepts and use them correctly
- find and apply documentation of security-related problems and tools
- analyze small pieces of code or system descriptions in terms of their security
- identify vulnerabilities of such code or descriptions and predict their corresponding threats
- select counter-measures to identified threats and argue their effectiveness
- compare counter-measures and evaluate their side-effects
- present and explain their reasoning to others
such that the students can:
- develop software or computer systems with security in mind
- go on to more specialized topics, such as network security
Course Content
- introduction to security
- introduction to cryptography
- authentication, access control, multi-level security
- intrusion detection, firewalls
- malware: virus/worm/trojans
- web attacks
- buffer overflows, secure programming
- human factors, audits, social engineering.
Prerequisites
Introduction to Computer Science (2D1345 or DD1340) or other corresponding course.
This course is a basis for
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DD2449 Foundations of Cryptography.
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DD2495 Network Security.
Old exams/Gamla tentor
2014-01-14: exam/lydelse (pdf), solution (pdf).
2012-12-14: solution/lösningar (pdf).
2012-01-10: exam/lydelse (pdf), solution/lösningar (pdf).
2011-06-01: exam/lydelse (pdf).
2010-12-14: exam/lydelse (pdf), solution/lösningar (pdf).
2010-03-18: exam/lydelse (pdf).
2009-01-07: exam/lydelse (pdf).
2008-10-20: exam/lydelse (pdf), solutions/lösningar (pdf).
2008-01-14: exam/lydelse (pdf) (till
omtentor publiceras inga lösningar).
2007-10-24: exam/lydelse (pdf), solutions/lösningar (pdf).
2007-01-15: exam/lydelse (pdf) (till
omtentor publiceras inga lösningar).
2006-10-18: exam/lydelse (pdf), solutions/lösningar (pdf).
