AL-604 (B) · Information Security & Management/Official Syllabus
Information Security & Management (AL-604 (B)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Introduction
- Needs for Security
- Basic security terminologies e.g. threats, vulnerability, exploit etc.
- Security principles(CIA), authentication, nonrepudiation
- security attacks and their classifications
- Mathematical foundation - Prime Number; Modular Arithmetic
- Fermatb4s and Eulerb4s Theorem
- The Euclidean Algorithms
- The Chinese Remainder Theorem
- Discrete logarithms
2
Unit 2
Symmetric Key Cryptography
- Classical cryptography b4 substitution, transposition and their cryptanalysis
- Symmetric Cryptography Algorithm b4 DES, 3DES, AES etc.
- Modes of operation: ECB, CBC etc.
- Cryptanalysis of Symmetric Key Ciphers: Linear Cryptanalysis, Differential Cryptanalysis
3
Unit 3
Asymmetric Key Cryptography
- Key Distribution and Management
- Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange algorithm
- Asymmetric Key Cryptography Algorithmb4 RSA, ECC etc.
- Various types of attacks on Cryptosystems
4
Unit 4
Authentication & Integrity
- Authentication & Integrity b4 MAC, Hash function
- SHA, MD5, HMAC
- Digital signature and authentication protocols
- Authorization; Access control mechanism; X.509 Digital Certificate
5
Unit 5
E-mail, IP and Web Security
- E-mail security b4 PGP, MIME, S/MIME
- IP security protocols
- Web security b4 TLS, SSL etc.
- Secure Electronic Transaction(SET)
- Firewall and its types
- Introduction to IDPS
- Risk Management; Security Planning
Reference Books
- Principles of Information Security — Michael E. Whitman, Herbert J. Mattord — Cengage Learning
- Cryptography and Network Security - Principles and Practice — Stallings William — Pearson
- Network Security the Complete Reference — Roberta Bragge, Mark Rhodes, Keith Straggberg — Tata McGraw Hill Publication
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