| Instructor |
Dr. KP Chow (
chow@cs.hku.hk
) |
| Teaching assistant |
TBA |
| Syllabus |
This module provides an in-depth understanding of basic security problems
and relevant e-commerce solutions, while helping students implement
today’s most advanced security technologies, such as designing secure
Web, e-commerce, and mobile commerce applications, securing corporate
internal network, and providing secure employee/user authentication.
Key topics include: Security mechanisms, key management and
certificates, payment security services, communication network and
network access layer security, Internet layer security and transport
layer security, application layer security, hypertext transfer protocol,
web server security, web client security, mobile code security, mobile
agent security, mobile commerce security. |
| Objectives |
This module provides an in-depth
understanding of basic security problems and relevant e-commerce solutions,
while helping students implement today’s most advanced security
technologies. |
| Learning outcomes |
- Be able to understand the technical and managerial
challenges students will face as e-commerce security becomes
a new focus of economics activities
- Be able to analysis the security risk of a e-commerce
system and apply security measures accordingly
- Be able to write a review regarding the interaction
between computing facilities and human being users in a
e-commerce security issue
|
| Prior knowledge expected |
None |
| Topics covered |
- Security fundamentals and communication security
- Internet Security
- Transport layer security
- Application layer security
- Client-side Web security
- Server-side Web security
- Current cases in e-commerce security
|
| Teaching format |
Lectures |
| Assessment |
- In-course assessment (40%)
- One project on recent topics in information security (40%)
- One Open Book Final exam (60%)
Date: 15 December 2014 (Mon)
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Venue: TBA
|
| Course materials |
Yun Zhao Chwan-Hwa (John) Wu and J. David Irwin, Introduction to Computer
Networks and Cybersecurity, CRC Press; 1 edition (February 4, 2013) |
| Enrolment |
No add or drop after 29 October 2014 (23:59) |
| Class quota |
Class size will be maintained at 60. |