Security engineering

Individual course

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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Responsible teacher

University of Turku
Petri Sainio
petsai(at)utu.fi

Contact person for applications

FITech-verkostoyliopisto
Fanny Qvickström, Opintoasioiden suunnittelija
info(at)fitech.io

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