Chair of Mobile Business & Multilateral Security

Information and Communication Security: Infrastructures, Technologies and Business Models

 

Basic Information
Type of Lecture: Lecture with practical component
Course: Master
Hours/Week: 3
Credit Points: 6
Language: English
Term: Winter 2024/2025
Lecturers:
Basharat Ahmed
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Content of the Course

Description: Learning Goals and Competencies

  • Basic understanding of security and privacy technologies
  • Basic understanding of technological and legal frameworks to prevent digital privacy threats to individuals
  • Basic understanding of security engineering processes, and security risk management
  • Understanding the importance of information security at organizational level

Descripton of course:

The “Information and Communication Security” lecture series provides a general introduction to the topic of information and communication security. Students will be qualified to identify security challenges that come along with using and employing information and communication systems, and to identify and apply adequate means and methods to solve them.

Emphasis will be put on the organisational and technical set-up of infrastructures, also including aspects of risk management and profitability analysis of security concepts and technologies. Further, students will be qualified to identify and assess security risks, in order to develop and establish appropriate security strategies.

Contents presented in the lecture will also be discussed in the context of international standardisation and regulation activities in the domain of information and communication security, allowing students to consider long-term developments, trends, and challenges in their analysis.

Timetable: 

The timetable is being updated... Please keep yourself updated.

Date

Time

Room

Session

Nr.

Title

Documents

15/10/2024

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L1

Introduction

 L1 ICT_Flyer

22/10/2024

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L2

Authentication

 L2

22/10/2024

16-18

HZ7

Lecture

L3

Access Control

 L3

29/10/2024

10-12

HZ7

Exercise

E1

Authentication

 Exercise 1

 Solutions

05/11/2024

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L4

Cryptography I

 L4

05/11/2024

16-18

HZ7

Exercise

E2

Access Control

 Exercise 2

 Solutions

12/11/2024

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L5

Cryptography II

 L5

19/11/2024

10-12

HZ7

Guest Lecture

G

By: Michael Schmid (Sigmapert)
Topic: ISMS

Slides

19/11/2024

16-18

HZ7

Guest Lecture

G

Tutorial on the Security Management

Exercise *

26/11/2024

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L6

Electronic Signatures

L6

03/12/2024

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L7

Identity Management

L7

03/12/2024

16-18

HZ7

Lecture

L8

Privacy Protection I

Slides *

10/12/2024

10-12

HZ7

Guest Lecture

G

By: Fatbardh Veseli (eOn)

Slides

17/12/2024

10-12

HZ7

Exercise

E3

Cryptography

Exercise 3
Bonus Material

17/12/2024

16-18

HZ7

Lecture

L9

Privacy Protection II

 

14/01/2025

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L10

Computer System Security

 

14/01/2025

16-18

HZ7

Lecture

L11

Network Security I

 

21/01/2025

10-12

HZ7

Guest Lecture

G

By: Markus Tschersich (Continental)

 

28/01/2025

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L12

Network Security II

 

28/01/2025

16-18

HZ7

TBD

 

TBD

 

04/02/2025

10-12

HZ7

Guest Lecture

G

By: Gokhan Bal (AONIC)

Topic: Corporate Cyber Readiness

 

11/02/2025

16-18

HZ7

Lecture

L13

Recent Research

 

11/02/2025

10-12

HZ7

Lecture

L14

Exam Prep and Wrap Up Q&A

 

*: updated

Exam Information

The language of the exam is english. The exam is also to be answered in English.

The exam has 90 points. 

Please bring a non-programmable calculator to the exam.

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