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Information Security Privacy Syllabus

This document outlines the course outcomes and units for an information security and privacy course. The course aims to define security controls, explore technical tools for security and privacy, discover organizational vulnerabilities, differentiate unethical behavior, review major standards, and understand authentication methods like biometrics. The six units cover information systems security threats and principles, program security flaws and controls, biometrics access controls, security standards and policies, security metrics and trusted systems, and the technological impacts on individual privacy. Recommended textbooks and references are also provided.

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Information Security Privacy Syllabus

This document outlines the course outcomes and units for an information security and privacy course. The course aims to define security controls, explore technical tools for security and privacy, discover organizational vulnerabilities, differentiate unethical behavior, review major standards, and understand authentication methods like biometrics. The six units cover information systems security threats and principles, program security flaws and controls, biometrics access controls, security standards and policies, security metrics and trusted systems, and the technological impacts on individual privacy. Recommended textbooks and references are also provided.

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INT407:INFORMATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY

Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to

CO1 :: Define the security controls sufficient to provide a required level of confidentiality,
integrity, and availability in an organization’s computer systems

CO2 :: Explore the key technical tools available for security/privacy protection

CO3 :: Discover vulnerabilities critical to the information assets of an organization

CO4 :: Differentiate unethical and illegal behavior in information security

CO5 :: Review major standards that relate to the practice of information security

CO6 :: Understand authentication methods by using biometrics as an authentication method

Unit I
Information Systems : Information system security & threats, meaning and importance of
information systems, information security and privacy threat
Building Blocks of Information Security : principles, terms and three pillars of information
security, risk management & risk analysis, information classification, approaches and considerations
for risk analysis
Unit II
Threats : new technologies open door threats, level of threats: information, network Level,
classifications of threats and assessing damages
Program security : overview of program security, types of flaws, viruses and other malicious code,
controls against program threats, covert channels
Unit III
Biometrics Controls for Security : access control, user identification & authentication, biometric
techniques, face recognition and related issues, key success factors, advanced minutiae based algo
Unit IV
Security standards and policies : intro to ISO 27001. COBIT, SSE-CMM, policies and their
elements, HIPAA security guidelines, methodologies for information system security.: IAM, IEM,
SIPES.
Unit V
Security metrics and trusted system : Security matrix, Classification, Privacy vs security, Security
Models, Trusted OS Design and Principles, Security features of Trusted OS
Unit VI
Privacy Technological Impacts : Impact of information technology on privacy of an individual,
Affect of web technologies on privacy, RFID related privacy issues, Internet related privacy issues

Text Books:
1. INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY WILEY PUBLICATIONS by NINA GODOLE, WILEY

References:
1. NETWORK SECURITY: THE COMPLETE REFERENCE ROBERTA: TATAMCGRAW HILL by
BRAGG,, MCGRAW HILL EDUCATION

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