Information Security

General Information

• Module Tutor: David Weston
• Week 7 Reading Week : NO LECTURE
• Length: 15 Credits (11 weeks)
• Level: 6

· Lab Session 1: Week 4

· Lab Session 2: Week 8

Time and Venue

Mondays 18:00 - 21:00

UCL, UCL Medical Sciences 131 A V Hill LT

Location

Suggested Reading

• Ross Anderson, Security Engineering 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, ISBN 0470068523

Free online version (2nd edition)

• Keith M. Martin, Everyday Cryptography: Fundamental Principles and Applications, 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-969559-1

Other useful texts

• William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security 5th edition, Pearson, 2010, ISBN 0136097049

• Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0201440997

• Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons, 1996, ISBN 0-471-11709-9

Assessment

• 80% exam
• 20% coursework

Indicative Course Material Weeks 1 to 3

Date	Topic	Slides	Coursework and other	External links
Week1	Motivation/Introduction Administrative Issues Risk Assessment	Lecture 1 Classwork 1		Information Security Handbook (Domain 1, 3, and 4 used for lecture) CORAS (A public-domain threat and risk assessment method) World's Biggest Data Breaches
Week 2	Security Policies	Lecture 2 Classwork 2		Article on Security Policies The original integrity model paper by Clark and Wilson
Week 3	Social Engineering Cryptography	Lecture 3 Classwork 3