Advanced Security for Systems Engineering - WS2014 (183.645)

We will hold our lecture Advanced Security for Systems Engineering (183.645) for different master studies of information science in WS2014. You can also get some information on the lecture in TISS.

Advanced Security for Systems Engineering is a lecture with exercises which concentrates on advanced IT security aspects as a whole for IT systems. As a prerequisite for the lecture you need to know the content of the lectures Introduction to Security and Security for Systems Engineering. After the lecture Advanced Security for Systems Engineering you can visit our lecture IT Security in Large IT Infrastructures.

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Registration

The registration was in TISS until October 10, 2014.

Lectures/Slides

Only the dates which are presented subsequently are authoritative. Please note that these can change exceptionally.

The lectures are on Fridays, 01:15pm-02:45pm, in HS6.

The planned dates for the lectures/test/inspection of the test are:

• 03.10.2014   Preliminary Discussion
• 10.10.2014   Web Application Security
• 17.10.2014   XML Security
• 24.10.2014   IT Security in the Field: Passport Security
• 31.10.2014   Advanced Attacks on Applications 1
• 07.11.2014   Guest Lecture in the field of Stock Exchanges
• 14.11.2014   Advanced Attacks on Applications 2
• 28.11.2014   Security of VoIP
• 05.12.2014   Forensics
• 12.12.2014   Skimming
• 19.12.2014   Secure Architectures
• 09.01.2015   Mobile Applications
• 16.01.2015, 02:15PM-03:45PM   Test
• 2330.01.2015, usual lecture time, Wiedner Hauptstraße 76/2/2   Inspection of the test in Wiedner Hauptstraße 76/2/2
• 25.03.2015, 10:15AM-11:45AM 1st Additional Test (registration and more information)
• 18.05.2015, 06:15PM-07:45PM 2nd Additional Test (registration and more information)
• 18.06.2015, 12:15PM-01:45PM 3rd Additional Test (registration and more information)

Exercises

If you have questions regarding the exercises please have a look at our contact information.

• lab0   (20 points, exercise has to be finished alone, 14.10.2014 - 31.10.2014)
• Building of teams for lab1 and lab2   04.11.2014 - 11.11.2014
• lab1   (50 points, team exercise, 18.11.2014 - 16.12.2014)
• examination for lab1, 14/15.01.2015
• lab2   (50 points, team exercise, 16.12.2014 - 20.01.2015)
• examination for lab2 23/26.01.2015

Note: Our exercises traditionally start at 11.55pm if not stated otherwise.

Test

The test is a closed book test. Therefore, the use of documents at the test is not allowed. The content of the test will be the lectures and exercises.

The 1st test will be on January 16, 2015, 02:15PM-03:45PM in HS 17 Friedrich Hartmann Hörsaal.

The 1st additional test will be on March 25, 2015, 10:15AM-11:45AM in HS 17 Friedrich Hartmann Hörsaal.

The 2nd additional test will be on May 18, 2015, 06:15PM-07:45PM in HS 18 Czuber Hörsaal.

The 3rd additional test will be on June 18, 2015, 12:15PM-01:45PM in HS 18 Czuber Hörsaal.

There will be 4 possibilities to take the exam.

Grading

S1  <= 200
U2  < 176
B3  < 151
G4  < 126
N5  < 102

Please note that you can finish the lecture positively only if you are positive in the lecture as well as exercise parts, i.e., you have more than 40 points for the lecture and more than 60 points for the exercises.

Note: Sometimes, your grade is not displayed correctly in tuwel. Therefore, please always compare your grading with our grading table above.

Contact

If you have questions which are also relevant for other students please use the TUWEL forum which will be available at the beginning of the term. For specific questions please write us an e-mail or visit us during our office hours.

Note on forums: We only answer questions in the TUWEL forum which we provide. Other forums are not actively monitored by us.

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