Avsnittsöversikt

  • Teachers

      • Ola Flygt - course coordinator and lecturer
      • Hemant Ghayvat - lecturer 
      • Nikolaos Papadopoulos <np222fc@student.lnu.se> - Teaching assistant
      • Kristoffer Björklund <kb222wa@student.lnu.se> - Teaching assistant

    Introduction

    This is a course in IT security with a special emphasis on Internet security. The idea is to give a good coverage of threats against computers on a global network and the tools to thwart them.

    The course covers:

      • encryption and coding techniques
      • authentication standards and applications
      • electronic mail security
      • IP Security
      • Web Security
      • network management security
      • intruders and hackers
      • malicious software
      • firewalls

    Syllabus

    Course syllabus

    Teaching

    The course will have lectures and practical assignments. Lectures are given on campus in Växjö and streamed online. There will be tutoring on campus and online for the practical work each week.

    Time for introduction of assignments and tutoring is not scheduled yet but will be soon. Some lectures will also be removed.
    This is the time table.

    On-line teaching will be streamed to Zoom (check the time table for details) and lab sessions will also be in Zoom. See link to Zoom below.

    For discussion, questions, comments etc. use the slack channel for the course, https://coursepress.slack.com/messages/CMXB15T4L

    Examination

    The course will be examined by a written and/or oral exam (campus and/or online) on the theoretical parts of the course and with reports covering the practical work. For students registered as distance students there will be an option to handle examination online. See more details in the grading criteria document.

    Required Reading

    The course book used this year is

    Stallings, W Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards, Global Edition, 6/E, 2016