ITO5163 Information and computer security
Faculty of Information Technology
ITO5163 Information and computer security is a level 5, 6-credit-point, postgraduate unit from the Faculty of Information Technology. It isn't offered in 2020. It needs ITO4131, ITO4137 and ITO4136.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
This is the 2020 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ITO5163
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
Prerequisites
Pass these before you enrol.
After ITO5163
No unit lists ITO5163 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prerequisite knowledge:Â Introductory knowledge of computing at the undergraduate level is assumed.
This unit is only available to students enrolled into C4009 Graduate Certificate of Computer Science, C5008 Graduate Diploma of Computer Science and C6008 Master of Computer Science.
Equivalent units
The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.
Overview
The unit aims to provide the students with in depth knowledge of techniques required to deal with security problems in information systems. The main areas of study include symmetric and asymmetric encryption techniques, cryptographic hash functions with related topics of message authentication codes and digital signatures. Study of techniques and algorithms for providing mutual trust include key management and distribution and user authentication to establish trust in the identity of communicating partner are also included. It looks at various management issues, including use and abuse of encryption, distributed systems authentication and integrity management. A range of security applications are used as examples. Students will learn how to apply cryptographic techniques in practice.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for ITO5163.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Critically assess threats, vulnerabilities and risks to an organisation's information assets and propose control technologies and techniques which can be applied to reduce the security risk;
- 2
Apply a variety of cryptographic algorithms to develop methods to disguise information to ensure its integrity, confidentiality and authenticity;
- 3
Apply a variety of methods for key management and distribution and analyse the risks associated with the various approaches;
- 4
Implement user authentication and access control mechanisms to create a security architecture to protect the assets of the information system;
- 5
Implement cryptographic techniques to preserve the security of information and evaluate its effectiveness;
- 6
Apply a variety of security control technologies to IT systems in an organisation.
Workload and teaching
- Teaching approachOnline learning
A minimum of 122 hours over the 6 week teaching period should be used to complete assignments, participating in discussions, private study and revision.