CSCE 813 – Internet Security

CSCE 813 – Internet Security

Spring 2014

Monday, Wednesday 5:30 – 6:45 pm, SWGN 1A20

Final exam – due May 5, 2014 4:00 pm

Professor: Csilla Farkas

E-mail: farkas@cse.sc.edu

URL: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~farkas/csce813-2012/csce813.htm

Class hours: Monday, Wednesday, 5:30 – 6:45 pm

Office hours: Monday, Wednesday: 2:00 – 2:30 pm and 4:15 – 5:15 pm or by appointment

Course description:

The Internet is being used extensively from E-business to information gathering and from collaborative work to private communications. As the usage of the Internet grows, so does the probability of malicious attacks against its users and components. The course will introduce security threats, such as hackers, masqueraders, information spoofing, sniffing, and distribution of damaging software, the associated security risks, and prevention/detection/response techniques. The course will cover three areas of Internet Security: 1) Internet Communication Security, 2) Web Application Vulnerabilities 3) Web Application Exploitation.

Textbooks:

Required:

Research articles for conference proceedings and journals
R. Oppligger: Internet & Intranet Security, Artech House Print on Demand; 2 edition (June 1, 2007), 1580531660

Recommended for interested students:

Dafydd Stuttard and Marcus Pinto, The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Finding and Exploiting Security Flaws (Paperback), Wiley; 2 edition (September 27, 2011), ISBN-10: 1118026470

Syllabus

Tests:

· Midterm: March 19, 2014 regular class time

· Study materials: lecture notes until February 26 (including 02/26/2014)

· Reading materials from text book and online (as indicated)

· Sample midterm1

· Final exam: Take home exam. Due: May 5, 2014 4:00 pm via dropbox

· Study materials: all lecture notes

· All reading materials from text book and online (as indicated)

· Sample (note, only consider questions related to the topics we covered this year) sample1, sample2, sample3

Homeworks:

Homework 1 Due: January 23, 2014, 2:00 am