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This unit will present the lessons from recent research and from case studies of practice to bring students the skills to assess and improve the security of deployed systems. A particular focus is on data-driven approaches to collect operational data about a systems security. We explore deployment issues at local and global scale, e. g. for X. 509, DNS, and BGP, and also take human factors explicitly into account. As a result, students will learn to put building blocks of security together in a sound way, to arrive at engineering solutions that are empirically verifiable, functional, and secure against realistic threats. As Dan Geer once famously said: Any security technology whose effectiveness cant be empirically determined is indistinguishable from blind luck.
Study level | Undergraduate |
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Academic unit | Computer Science |
Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites:
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(DATA3888 or COMP3888 or COMP3988 or CSEC3888 or SOFT3888 or ENGG3112 or SCPU3001) and (CSEC3616 or INFO3616 or ELEC5616) |
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Corequisites:
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Enrolment in a thesis unit INFO4001 or INFO4911 or INFO4991 or INFO4992 or AMME4111 or BMET4111 or CHNG4811 or CIVL4022 or ELEC4712 or COMP4103 or SOFT4103 or DATA4103 or ISYS4103 |
Prohibitions:
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COMP5617 or OCMP5617 |
Assumed knowledge:
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A major in a computer science area |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2023
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Normal evening | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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