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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 | Postgraduate |
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Academic unit | Computer Science |
Credit points | 6 |
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
Prohibitions:
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COMP4617 or COMP5617 |
Assumed knowledge:
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INFO3616 or ELEC5616 or CSEC3616 or CSEC5616 or OCSE5616 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
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Semester 1b 2024
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Online | Online Program |
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Semester 2b 2024
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Online | Online Program |
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PG Online Session 1B 2025
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Online | Online Program |
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PG Online Session 2B 2025
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Online | Online Program |
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