University of South Carolina

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

CSCE 522 Information Security Principles

Fall 2008

Instructor: Csilla Farkas

Office: Swearingen 3A43

Office Hours: Monday, Wedensday 3:00-4:30 pm, electronically any time or by appointment

Telephone: 576-5762

E-mail: farkas@cse.sc.edu

Class homepage: http://www.cse.sc.edu/~farkas/csce522-2008/csce522.htm

Course Description: This course will describe the basic principles of information systems security, including cryptography, identifications and authentications, access control models and mechanisms, multilevel database security, steganography, Internet security, and planning and administering security. The students will gain an understanding of the threats to information resources and learn about counter measurements and their limitations.

Prerequisite Material: CSCE520 or MGSC 596

Materials covered in CSCE 520: Introduction to Database Management Systems (slides), Entity-Relationship Data Model (slides), Relational Data Model (slides) , Functional Dependencies (slides), Normalization (slides), Normalization and MVD (slides), SQL 1. (slides), SQL 2. (slides), SQL 3. (slides)

Text Books

1. Charles P. Pfleeger and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Security in Computing (4th Edition) (Hardcover), Prentice Hall PTR; 4 edition (October 23, 2006), ISBN-10: 0132390779

TEST 2: Nov. 20 – Thursday

In class, closed book exam

Content: All reading materials and lectures notes from Sept. 25 (Software Security and Risk Management) to Nov. 13 (Inference Problem Privacy Preserving Data Mining) .

NEW! Sample tests (sample and its solutions)

Syllabus

Homework Assignments – Homework 3: Due Nov. 25, 2008

Project Information – NEW! Final Project Report (hard copy): Due Dec. 5, 2008, Friday, 5:00 pm

Format of the Final report.

Lecture Notes