ITI5124 Emerging topics for cybersecurity in practice

This unit aims to provide students with advanced knowledge of cybersecurity. Advancements in cloud services, mobile computing, and machine learning bring much convenience to our lives, improve our productivity in daily work, and provide us with personalised services. Despite many benefits, these new paradigms incur aggravated security and privacy concerns. End-users, enterprises, and governments face growing threats from sophisticated cyber attacks. This unit will study advanced cybersecurity technologies to address those threats in the current practice. Topics include design and implementation of advanced cryptosystems for high-performance applications such as encrypted databases, cryptographic protocols and hardware-assisted approaches for secure computing applications such as privacy-preserving machine learning, and practical post-quantum cryptography that can address the emerging threats of quantum computers. Learning activities will focus on understanding security and privacy issues in cloud and networked systems, encrypted search techniques, cloud storage security, secure multi-party computation techniques, trusted computing, and lattice-based cryptography.