Security engineering

Course content:

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
• knows and is able to administer different ways and methods for protecting and managing different kind of digital material and rights (DRM)
• is able to 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)
• is also able to recognise information security risks caused by subsystems and is able to prevent their occurrences by means of careful information security design of the system

More information in University of Turku’s study guide.