Security engineering

This course addresses security topics in practical systems. The course covers multiple topics causing security vulnerabilities in practical systems. Topics cover a wide range of potential issues from physical protection to security evaluation.

Course contents

• Access control
• Distributed systems
• Multilevel and multilateral security
• Physical protection
• Biometrics
• Physical tamper resistance
• Radio frequency emission and security
• Copyright and DRM
• Managing the development of secure systems
• System evaluation and assurance

After the completion of the course the student is able to

• select suitable and adequate information security solutions to suit the security needs of a particular application.
• administer different ways and methods for protecting and managing different kind of digital material and rights (DRM).
• specify a system for electronic identification (biometrics) taking into account both the identification accuracy and the proper and secure management and transportation of the identification data (biometric).
• recognise information security risks caused by subsystems and prevent their occurrences by means of careful information security design of the system.

Course material

• Ross Anderson: Security Engineering, 3rd ed.
• Additional material delivered during the course.

Completion method

Weekly schedule for lectures and assignments during the teaching periods. Please see the course page at UTU for up-to-date lecture schedule.

More information on the University of Turku’s course page.

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