Advanced Computer Security CS563

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Taught as CS598CAG in Spring 2006

 

Instructor: Carl A. Gunter

 

When: 11am-12:15pm WF

Where: 1304 Siebel Center

 

Course Description

Slides

Assignment #1

 

Tentative Schedule

8 Mar - TRA - Virtual Machines: LeMay and Sharykin on Zen and Smart Card VMs
10 Mar - UWT - DoS: Kahn and Fliege on Classification of Attacks and Countermeasures
15 Mar - UWT - Anti-Spam: speakers Alverez and Gagnon
17 Mar - TRA - Tamper-Resistant Hardware: Hassan and Myagmar
29 Mar - Project Discussions (first TRA and then UTI)
31 Mar - TRA - DRM 1: Archana Dutta and Haoweng Huang
5 Apr - UWT - DRM 2: Kasem Kharbat and Dmitry Mogilevsky
7 Apr - Project Discussions (first TRA and then UTI)
12 Apr - UWT - VoIP: Mike Tucker, Milan Lathia, Nalin Pai and Zahid Anwar
14 Apr - UWT - High Level Firewalls: Brian Cook + DoS Literature: Omid Fatemieh
19 Apr - No Class (Checkpoint - everyone must submit and get approval for their research problem statement)
21 Apr - TRA - PISCES project: SoumyaDeb Mitra and Sruthi Bandhakavi

26 Apr - UWT - DoS: Lili Rasouli, TRA: Sundeep Reddy

28 Apr - UWT - VoIP: Mike Tucker, Milan Lathia, Nalin Pai and Zahid Anwar

3 May - UWT: Ramses Morales, SPAM: Sari Louis; UWT - High Level Firewalls: Laura Worthington, SPAM: Steve White [The last 2 presentations will be offline]

7 May - Presentation Marathon (Group presentation all day - See details below) [For I2CS students only]

8 May - Presentation Marathon (Group presentation - See details below) 

11 May - 8:00AM - 11:00 AM - Final Exam, 1304 SC (Regular Classroom) [See details of format below]

 

Final Presentation

 * Each group will have 45 minutes to present their work in the research project.

 * Communication through Conference Bridge.

 * Student attendance in other people's presentation is not required.

 

Time allotted for the final presentation of each group [Please sign up for the time slots - First come first serve basis]

 

Attestation - Michael; Sundeep - 40 minutes

DRM - Archana, Haoweng, Kasem and Dmitry - 40 minutes

PISCES - Ragib, Sruthi, Soumyadeb and Raman - 40 minutes

VoIP - Zahid, Mike, Milan and Nalin - 60 minutes

High Level Firewall - Brian and Laura - 40 minutes

DoS - Roger, Fariba and Omid; Ramses; Lili - 60 minutes

SPAM - Jesus; Marc, Steve and Sari - 60 minutes

 

 

Time slots for the final presentation

 

May 7, Sunday

 

3-4pm - High Level Firewall Group - Brian, Laura.

 

May 8, Monday

 

10-11am - DoS Group - Fariba, Omid, Roger.

11-15am - 11-40 pm - DoS Group - Ramses

11-45am - 12-15 pm - Attestation - Micheal

 

 2- 3pm - PISCES Group - Ragib, Raman, Soumyadeb, Sruthi.

 

 6:30-6:50 pm - SPAM Group - Jesus.

 6:50-7:30 pm - SPAM Group - Marc, Sari, Steve.

 7:30-8:30 pm - VoIP Group - Mike, Milan, Nalin, Zahid.

 

May 11, Thursday

6:00-7:00 pm - DRM Group - Archana, Dmitry, Haoweng, Kasem.

 

Final Exam Format-

 

For the final exam, we shall be printing out a book that contains all the presentations and sending them to students. Each page will have three slides with space for notes for each slide. The students can write anything in the book and bring the book to the exam as an aide. The exam questions will mostly not be directly from the slides (except for a small portion), but it will ask something that follows from the presentation in the slide. The idea is, we shall not be judging that the students know which slide contains the answer to a question, rather we shall be judging whether the students can think/compare/design/synthesize solutions for answering a question.

 

Sample Question -

1. There have been suggestions that authentication is not the catch-all solution for thwarting SPAM attacks. What are the benefits that authentication has that makes it appropriate for fighting against SPAM? What are the disadvantages?

 

2. We have read about the hooks approach, and the IPMP-X approach for DRM solutions. Compare these solutions.

etc.

 

Final Exam Notebook (Final Draft)

Final exam notebook has 4 adjacent parts - 

Part 1 - 563.0 - 563.5 

Part 2 - 563.6 - 563.9.4

Part 3 - 563.10.1 - 563.13.1

Part 4 - 563.13.2 - 563.15.1