COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED INFORMATION SECURITY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CSC 5021 ADVANCED INFORMATION SECURITY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ERDEM ALKIM

Offered to

Ph.D. in Computer Science (English)
Computer Science

Course Objective

This course aims to provide a wide perspective in several different topics centering at the security of data and information.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   How to analyze the security requirements of a system
2   How to find vulnerabilities of information systems
3   Detecting unwanted information leaks
4   Detecting and defending systems against intruders and eavesdroppers
5   A mathematical and algorithmic perspective towards information security

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Security Engineering
2 Security Protocols
3 Chosen Protocol Attacks
4 Practical Key Management
5 Number Theory and Cryptography
6 Pseudorandom Number Generators
7 Digital Signatures
8 Recap
9 Cryptography Based on Discrete Logarithms
10 Elliptic Curve Cryptography
11 Database and data security
12 Security Policy Models
13 Network Security: Attack and Defense
14 Computer Forensics

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): C. P. Pfleeger and S. L. Pfleeger, Security in Computing, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2006.
W. Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2010.
Supplementary Book(s): B. Thuraisingham, Database and Applications Security: Integrating Information Security and Data Management, 1st Edition, Auerbach Publishers, 2005.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course is taught in a lecture, class presentation and discussion format. Besides the taught lecture, group presentations are to be prepared by the groups assigned and presented in a discussion session. In some weeks of the course, results of the homework given previously are discussed.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRJ PROJECT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRJ * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRJ * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 3 13 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 2 20 40
Preparing presentations 2 15 30
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 205

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.555

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