ICS 355: Security and Trust I - Basic Concepts

Security is an old problem

Tamper protection from cca 3700 BC: clay envelope (bulla) for tokens.

Synopsis:

As social, economic, and political processes propagate through computational networks, computational processes have ever broader social, economic, and political repercussions. This makes security into one of the central problems of computer science.

While traditional sciences are concerned with truth, as confirmed by experiments, modern sciences are increasingly also concerned with lying and deceit, as enabled, implemented, countered, and prevented through network computation. Security Science gathers methods and results of research into adversarial computation. This introductory course aims to familiarize students with the emerging foundations of this new science and prepare future computer scientists for its rapidly evolving applications.

 

 

 

    1. Lectures:

      1. Introduction: Security concepts
      2. Static resource security: access control and multi-level security
      3. Dynamic resource security: authorization and availability
      4. Channel security: noninterference and covert channels
      5. Privacy
      6. Trust