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Security Engineering Workshop - COMP9447
 UNSW Computing

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: COMP3931 or [65 in COMP3331 or TELE3018]. Corequistie: COMP3441.
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

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.


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