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ITEC855 Security Technologies

Lecture Notes

Week Topic Lecturer PDF Reading
week 1 Symmetric Key Cryptography and Hashing Dr. M. Hitchens 1. Introduction
2. Cryptography
3. Symmetric Key Cryptography
4. Integrity and Hashing
Chapters 2,3,4 & 5
week 2 Workshop
week 3 Asymmetric Key Cryptography, Key management and Cryptanalysis Dr. M. Hitchens 5. Public key Cryptography
6. Cryptanalysis
7. Key Management
Chapter 6
week 4 Workshop
week 5 Authentication and Access Control Dr. M. Hitchens 8. Authentication
9. Access Control
Chapters 9 & 10
week 6 Workshop
week 7 PKI and Kerberos Dr. M. Hitchens 10. Public Key Infrastructure
11. Kerberos
Chapters 13,14 & 15
mid-semester break recess recess recess recess
week 8 Workshop
week 9 Forensics Dr. M. Hitchens 12. Computer Forensics
Chapter 11
week 10 Workshop
week 11 Firewalls, Intrusion Dectection Systems, Viruses Dr. M. Hitchens 13. Firewalls
14. IDS, etc
Chapter 23
week 12 Workshop
week 13 Final Quiz Dr. M. Hitchens

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