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.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Computer Science |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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None |
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 |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | No |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Ali Anaissi, ali.anaissi@sydney.edu.au |
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Tutor(s) | Aicha Chorana, aicha.chorana@sydney.edu.au |