CS 343 - Computer and Information Security

Calendar

(Will be updated throughout the semester)
WEEK DAY ANNOUNCEMENTS READING HW
1 Sep 04   Security Concepts: Introduction HW 0 - Intro
Sep 06 Security Concepts: Threat Analysis and Access Control Models Ch. 1.1 - 1.2
2 Sep 11   Cryptography Overview Ch. 1.3 HW 1 - Passwords
Sep 13 Last Day to Add/Drop Passwords Handout
3 Sep 18   Physical Security Ch. 2 through 2.3
Sep 20 Physical Authentication Ch. 2.4, 2.5
4 Sep 25   Operating Systems Security Ch. 3.1, 3.2
Sep 27 RJH at Grace Hopper (No Class)
5 Oct 02   Operating Systems Security: Access Control and Advanced File Permissions Ch. 3.3 HW 2 - Physical Security
Oct 04 Attacks and Malware: Program Execution and Buffer Overflows Ch. 3.4
6 Oct 09   Attacks and Malware: Direct and Physical Attacks Ch. 4.1, 4.2 HW 3 - Buffer Overflow Attacks
Oct 11 Attacks and Malware: Malware II Ch. 4.3-4.5
7 Oct 16  
Oct 18 Midterm
  Oct 23 Fall Break (Oct. 20-28)
Oct 25
8 Oct 30   Voting Machines Blaze Statement on Voting Machine Security HW 4 - Voting
Nov 01 Network Security: Link and Network Layers Ch. 5.1-5.4
9 Nov 06 Last Day for P/NP, CR/NE,
  or Withdraw
Network Security: Transport Layer and Denial of Service Ch. 5.5
Nov 08   Network Security: DNS, Firewalls, Tunneling, IPSec, and VPNs Ch. 6.1 - 6.3
10 Nov 13   Network Security: Intrusion Detection Ch. 6.4 HW 5 - Attacks
Nov 15 Web Security: Wireless Networking, The WWW Ch. 6.5, 7.1
11 Nov 20   Attacks on Clients Ch. 7.2
Nov 22 Thanksgiving Break (Nov 22-25)
12 Nov 27   Attacks on Servers Ch. 7.2
Nov 29 Privacy
13 Dec 04   Cryptography Ch. 8
Dec 06 Ethics On Blackboard
14 Dec 11   Wrapup and Final Review Session