Course

Security Engineering Workshop - COMP9447

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Computer Science and Engineering

Course Outline: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs9447

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: A mark of 65 in COMP9331 or TELE9302.

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

View course information for previous years.

Description

Applied workshop in computer security and cybercrime: attack, defense, auditing.

The course will consist of a weekly seminar followed by a three hour per week workshop and lab session on the seminar topic. Topics are drawn from data sniffing, firewalls and attacks on firewalls, root-kits, exploits, denial of service attacks, intrusion detection systems, honeypots, malware, digital rights management, cryptanalysis, cross site scripting attacks, code injection attacks, threats and countermeasures, penetration testing, and current topics in security.


UNSW Computing

Study Levels

UNSW Quick Links