2019/2020

2019/2020

DM270

ING-INF/05 (DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS)

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS

Fisica delle tecnologie quantistiche

1°

1st semester (30/09/2019 - 17/01/2020)

6

45 lesson hours

English

WRITTEN TEST

BARILI ANTONIO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

Good knowledge of operating systems principles and applications, computer networking protocols and data base technologies.

Knowledge of information security techniques. Ability to assess the security level of some common software systems and to design improvement actions.

Introduction
Security vs. Safety. Physical security. Information security: privacy, avaliability, integrity, authenticity. Information security threats and countermeasures.

Basic Information Theory and Cryptography
Introduction to information theory and cryptography. Historical developement. Symmetric and asymmetric ciphers. Hashing functions and MACs. Pseudo-Random Number Generators. Digital certificates. Cryptanalysis.

Digital Signature
Digital documents and digital signatures. Creation, preservation and validation of digital documents. Digital documents as court evidence. Public key infrastructures. Italian and EU laws concerning digital signatures.

Intellectual property
Introduction to copyright law. Software and database protection. Audio, video and picture protection. Digital rights management (DRM). Watermarking and steganography.

Communication Protection
Information communication and diffusion. Synchronous and asynchronous communication. E-mail. The Web as an information diffusion media. Communication privacy protection. Threats to the freedom and privacy of communications and countermeasures. Phishing.

Systems and Networks Protection
Access control: authentication, authorization and accounting. Physical and logical information protection. Networks protection. Firewalls. Threats to systems and communication networks. Malware.

Incident Response e Digital Forensics
Incident detection and response. System audit and log analysis. Intrusion Detection Systems. Introduction to digital forensics.

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 45
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0

Lecture notes and online references provided by the instructor.

Written test.

Written test.