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Course Syllabus
Course objectives:
The objective of the course is to provide the students with an understanding of information
warfare principles and technologies. This course is intended to be appropriate for a broad
range of professionals interested in information security. The main units of the proposed
course are: 1) basic information warfare concepts, 2) offensive information warfare, and 3)
defensive information warfare. Vulnerability and risk analysis methods and current information
warfare technologies are presented. In addition to cyber security, physical security, ethics,
and legal considerations are also addressed during the course.
Student Work:
- Research project: there will be one group (3-4 students) research project and the
students must present their results to the class in the last two weeks of the semester.
- Homework and quizzes: there will be 4-5 small homework assignments during the semester.
Homework should be individual work. There will be a late submission penalty of 4%/day
after the due date. (You can always turn it in early.)
- Tests: there will be two open book tests covering the course material.
Grades: Will be calculated from grades received for project (40%) and its
presentation (5%), assignments (15%), and tests (20% each).
Tentative Schedule
Week 1:Introduction; Offensive and Defensive Information Warfare
Week 2:Cyber Crime - Fraud and Abuse; National Security
Week 3:Offensive Information Warfare; Privacy Rights
Week 4:Ethics, Censorship, Harassment; Intellectual Property - Piracy
Week 5:Insider Threat; Corporate Espionage
Week 6:Monitoring - Eavesdropping, Traffic Analysis; Surveillance
Week 7:Telecommunication Security; Computer Network Security
Week 8:Computer Break-Ins; TEST 1
Week 9:Defensive Information Warfare; Cryptographic Techniques
Week 10:Steganography; Prevention Techniques - Access Control
Week 11:Misuse Detection; Vulnerability Monitoring
Week 12:Security Policy; Risk Management
Week 13:Incident Handling; Law Enforcement and Cyber Crime
Week 14:U.S. Policy; International Policy
Week 15:Student Presentations; TEST 2
Basic Bibliography
Required:
- D. Denning: Information Warfare and Security (Addison Wesley, 1998, ISBN: 0201433036)
- Lecture handouts from current publications
Recommended:
- M. Erbschloe, J. R. Vacca: Information Warfare: How to Survive Cyber Attacks (McGraw-Hill Prof. 2001, ISBN: 0072132604)
- A. Jones, G. L. Kovacich, and P. G. Luzwick: Global Information Warfare: How Business, Governments, and Others Achieve Objectives and Attain Competitive Advantages (CRC Press, 2002, ISBN: 0849311144)
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