University of Padua -
BSc in Computer Science
CyberSecurity: Principles and Practice
Academic Year: 2019/2020
Lecturer: Mauro Conti
Teaching Assistant: Eleonora Losiouk and
Luca Pajola
Note: In this page you will find updated information about the course.
(students are invited to visit often this page).
CyberSecurity: Principles and Practice
Academic Year: 2019/2020
Lecturer: Mauro Conti
Teaching Assistant: Eleonora Losiouk and Luca Pajola
Note: In this page you will find updated information about the course.
(students are invited to visit often this page).
Language: The course and the exam will be in English.
Credits: 6 CFU.
Schedule: I semester (course schedule is published HERE).
Mailing List: Students enrolled for this course are invited to join THIS Google group.
Language: The course and the exam will be in English.
Credits: 6 CFU.
Course Content:
The course covers the fundamental concepts of CyberSecurity (reference book):- Cryptography
- User authentication
- Access control
- Database security
- Malware
- Denial of service
- Intrusion detection
- Buffer overflow attacks
- Software/hardware security
- Operating system security
- Trusted computing and multilevel security
Grading Criteria:
The final exam has three different formats, among which students can choose one:- Three practical exercises (i.e., Challenge 1, Challenge 2 and Challenge 3) to be solved only during the semester course
- A research project to be done under the supervision of a member of the SPRITZ group - students that choose this option will be selected either through the first Challenge or through an interview with the lecturer and the teaching assistants
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Written exam - students are required to be confident with all the concepts introduced during the course. In particular, the written exam will have 30 multiple-choice questions, among which ~80% will be theoretical questions on the topics of the reference book, while ~20% will be related to the material of practical challenges, i.e., it will contain snippets of code to be analyzed to answer the question. For each question the score is:
- +1 if the answer is correct
- -1 if the answer is wrong
- 0 otherwise
